ABSTRACT
Secondary cardiac tumours are rare. The new diagnostic technology and more effective chemotherapy schedules for primary tumours, leading to a longer survival, have increased the frequency of such tumors. Adenocarcinoma accounted for around 40% of all metastases to the heart; the most frequently involved sites are pericardium and epicardium. We present a patient with an unusual intraventricular metastases from adenocarcinoma of rectal-sigmoid origin.
Subject(s)
Adenocarcinoma/secondary , Heart Neoplasms/secondary , Rectal Neoplasms/pathology , Sigmoid Neoplasms/pathology , Adenocarcinoma/diagnostic imaging , Adenocarcinoma/drug therapy , Adenocarcinoma/surgery , Aged , Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use , Capecitabine , Cardiac Tamponade/etiology , Deoxycytidine/administration & dosage , Deoxycytidine/analogs & derivatives , Dyspnea/etiology , Fatal Outcome , Female , Fluorouracil/analogs & derivatives , Heart Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Heart Ventricles/diagnostic imaging , Humans , Liver Neoplasms/secondary , Organoplatinum Compounds/administration & dosage , Oxaliplatin , Palliative Care , Radiography , Rectal Neoplasms/drug therapy , Rectal Neoplasms/surgery , Sigmoid Neoplasms/drug therapy , Sigmoid Neoplasms/surgery , UltrasonographyABSTRACT
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Secondary cardiac tumours are rare. The new diagnostictechnology and more effective chemotherapyschedules for primary tumours, leading to a longersurvival, have increased the frequency of such tumors.Adenocarcinoma accounted for around 40%of all metastases to the heart; the most frequentlyinvolved sites are pericardium and epicardium. Wepresent a patient with an unusual intraventricularmetastases from adenocarcinoma of rectal-sigmoidorigin
