Heart failure due to right ventricular metastatic neuroendocrine tumor.
We report a case of a female patient that was referred to our service with progressive weakness and dyspnea. Three years ago, she had been submitted to hysterectomy and salpingo-oforectomy followed by adjuvant radiotherapy due to uterine cervix neuroendocrine tumor. Two-dimensional echocardiography showed a dense sessile mass in the right ventricle causing right and left ventricular filling restriction. Despite chemotherapy the patient died and necropsy confirmed metastases from neuroendocrine tumor to the right ventricle.
Minicucci
Marcos F
MF
Zornoff
Leonardo A M
LA
Okoshi
Marina P
MP
Bueno
Solange P
SP
Matsubara
Beatriz B
BB
Azevedo
Paula S
PS
Duarte
Daniella R
DR
Paiva
Sergio A R
SA
Marques
Mariangela
M
Matsubara
Luiz S
LS
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D018358:Neuroendocrine Tumors / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*