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Cardiac metastasis of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder caused myocardial infarction, ventricular rupture, and haemopericardium via tumour emboli in the left circumflex artery.
This case highlights a rare presentation of cardiac metastasis from transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder leading to tumour emboli, myocardial infarction, and ventricular rupture.
Alerts clinicians to rare tumor emboli from bladder TCC causing MI and rupture; hypothesis-generating for cardiac metastasis patterns.
We report a patient with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder who had metastatic nodules in the myocardium of the left ventricle and tumour emboli in the left circumflex artery which caused myocardial infarction with ventricular rupture and haemopericardium. Cardiac metastasis of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder is discussed and the literature reviewed.
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Malde et al. (2006) studied this question. Cardiac metastasis of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder caused myocardial infarction, ventricular rupture, and haemopericardium via tumour emboli in the left circumflex artery.
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