Solitary right ventricle metastasis by renal cell carcinoma

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2004 Apr;17(4):397-8. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2003.12.011.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / diagnosis
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / pathology*
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / therapy
  • Echocardiography
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Ventricles / pathology
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Kidney Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Kidney Neoplasms / therapy
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Syncope / diagnosis
  • Syncope / etiology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Failure