Solitary right ventricle metastasis by renal cell carcinoma.
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.
Masaki
Mitsuru
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Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.
Kuroda
Tadashi
T
Hosen
Naoki
N
Hirota
Hisao
H
Terai
Kazuo
K
Oshima
Yuichi
Y
Nakaoka
Yoshikazu
Y
Sugiyama
Shoko
S
Kimura
Ryusuke
R
Yoshihara
Satoshi
S
Kawakami
Manabu
M
Iizuka
Norishige
N
Tomita
Yasuhiko
Y
Ogawa
Hiroyasu
H
Kawase
Ichiro
I
Yamauchi-Takihara
Keiko
K
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