Key result
A 57-year-old male with undiagnosed renal cell carcinoma presented with severe dyspnea and was found to have a large metastatic mass in the right heart, leading to death within 3 months.
Why the study?
Tumors in the heart are rare and difficult-to-diagnose pathologies.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report highlights the role of multimodality imaging, including echocardiography and MSCT, in the diagnosis of rare secondary cardiac tumors such as metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
Tumors in the heart are rare and difficult to diagnose pathologies. There are primary and secondary tumors, the letter tumors include metastases of other tumors. In this work is presented clinical case of metastatic lesion of the right atrium with renal cell carcinoma. Modern methods of diagnostics of patients with intracardiac formations are discussed.
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Isaev et al. (2019) conducted a case report in Metastatic renal cell carcinoma to the right heart (n=1). Palliative surgery and symptomatic therapy was evaluated. A 57-year-old male with undiagnosed renal cell carcinoma presented with severe dyspnea and was found to have a large metastatic mass in the right heart, leading to death within 3 months.
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