Key result
Ventricular tachycardia presentation reveals metastatic RCC involving the right ventricle and multiple organs.
Case Report (n=1)
Cardiac metastases of renal cell carcinoma, though typically clinically silent, can rarely present with ventricular tachycardia.
Cardiac RCC metastases may manifest as VT; hypothesis-generating for cardiac evaluation in advanced disease.
Cardiac metastases of renal cell carcinomas are rare, and usually clinically silent. A case of a 53-year-old man without a significant medical history, who presented with ventricular tachycardia, which resulted in a cardiac mass of the right ventricle is reported. On chest X-ray, echocardiography, CT scanning, esophagogastroduodenoscopy and MRI, multiple metastatic masses were observed in both lungs, and the kidneys, adrenal, stomach and right ventricle. The kidney mass and the gastric polyp were revealed on biopsy to be a renal cell carcinoma mixed with sarcomatoid and conventional types. (Korean Circulation J 2005;35:341-344)
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Kwon et al. (2005) conducted a case report in Metastatic renal cell carcinoma presenting with ventricular tachycardia (n=1). A 53-year-old man presenting with ventricular tachycardia was diagnosed with multiple metastatic renal cell carcinoma involving the right ventricle, lungs, kidneys, adrenal gland, and stomach.
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