Cardiac involvement in metastatic breast cancer.
Metastatic disease is the most common cause of death in breast cancer. Although cardiac involvement has been reported in 12% to 30% of cases, intra-atrial involvement is rare. In this report we describe a 41-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer whose left atrium was invaded by a metastatic tumor that resulted in intermittent left ventricular in-flow obstruction. Such a presentation has not been described previously in metastatic breast cancer. The pertinent literature is reviewed.
Volk
M J
MJ
University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison.
Carbone
P P
PP
Pozniak
M A
MA
Rahko
P S
PS
D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000209:etiology; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed