Heart failure due to right ventricular metastatic neuroendocrine tumor
- 作者：Marcos F. Minicucci ; Leonardo A.M. Zornoff ; Marina P. Okoshi ; Solange P. Bueno ; Beatriz B. Matsubara ; Paula S. Azevedo ; Daniella R. Duarte ; Sergio A.R. Paiva ; Mariangela Marques ; Luiz S. Matsubara
- 关键词：Heart tumor ; Carcinoid tumor ; Cardiac metastases
- 刊名：International Journal of Cardiology
- 出版年：2008
- 期刊代码：128_01675273
- 类别：med
- 出版时间：23 May 2008
- 卷：126
- 期：2
- 页码：e25-e26
- 文件大小：270 K
摘要
We report a case of a female patient that was referred to our service with progressive weakness and dyspnea. Three years ago, she had been submitted to hysterectomy and salpingo-oforectomy followed by adjuvant radiotherapy due to uterine cervix neuroendocrine tumor. Two-dimensional echocardiography showed a dense sessile mass in the right ventricle causing right and left ventricular filling restriction. Despite chemotherapy the patient died and necropsy confirmed metastases from neuroendocrine tumor to the right ventricle.