Congestive heart failure due to rapid right ventricular obliteration by metastatic malignant melanoma
Rusconi, C.; Faggiano, P.; Ghizzoni, G.; Sorgato, A.; Minzioni, G.; Sabatini, T.
Minerva Cardioangiologica 44(3): 123-125
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4725 PMID: 8767611 Document Number: 457526
We describe a 47-year-old man with a history of malignant melanoma, starting with a resection from his left thigh and followed, 4 years later, by a metastatic melanoma in the right ventricle. Within a few days, hemodynamic compromise occurred combined with evidence of an impressive intracavitary growth of the tumor causing obstruction of the right ventricular inflow and outflow tract. Echocardiography was valuable in the assessment of neoplastic cardiac involvement and was useful in detecting rapid right ventricular cavity obliteration by the expansion of the metastatic mass.