title: Solitary right ventricle metastasis by renal cell carcinoma.
abstract: A 57-year-old man with a history of renal cell carcinoma presented with presyncope. He underwent nephrectomy years earlier followed by HLA-matched allogeneic peripheral-blood stem-cell transplantation. Echocardiographic investigation revealed a solitary right ventricle mass without contiguous vena caval or right atrial involvement. The mass was pathologically confirmed to be metastatic carcinoma in the right ventricular cavity. This case highlights the need to consider an underlying neoplastic syndrome in patients presenting isolated right ventricle mass by echocardiography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.
authors.forename: Mitsuru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Masaki
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuroda
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hosen
authors.forename: Hisao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hirota
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Terai
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Oshima
authors.forename: Yoshikazu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakaoka
authors.forename: Shoko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sugiyama
authors.forename: Ryusuke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoshihara
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawakami
authors.forename: Norishige
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Iizuka
authors.forename: Yasuhiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tomita
authors.forename: Hiroyasu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kawase
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamauchi-Takihara
mesh_terms: D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D004452:Echocardiography; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D036102:Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation; D013575:Syncope / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D017211:Treatment Failure