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Palliative surgical resection using CPB relieves life-threatening dyspnea in left atrial metastasis from HCC.
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Palliative surgical resection using cardiopulmonary bypass can provide life-saving symptom relief for patients with severe dyspnea due to cardiac metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with metastasis to the heart is uncommon. We report a rare case of left atrial metastasis of HCC which was resected palliatively as a live-saving procedure with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass. Despite chemoembolization, which was undertaken 11 times, cardiac metastasis occurred. Moreover, the right and left atria and left ventricle were involved simultaneously. The severe dyspnea improved dramatically after surgery. Following this, the patient underwent systemic chemotherapy and lived a life without recurrence of symptoms associated with mitral valve obstruction.
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Seo et al. (2011) conducted a case report in Hepatocellular carcinoma with left atrial metastasis (n=1). Palliative surgical resection using cardiopulmonary bypass was evaluated on Symptom relief and survival. Palliative surgical resection using cardiopulmonary bypass successfully relieved life-threatening dyspnea in a patient with left atrial metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma.
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