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Cardiol Res. 2018 Jun;9(3):183-185. doi: 10.14740/cr690w. Epub 2018 Jun 06.

Atrial Metastasis of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Presentation.

Cardiology research

Shilpi Shah, Poornima Vinod, Mohamed Khayata, Jason L Lane, Vinayak Hegde, Rupesh Raina

Affiliations

  1. Northeast Ohio Medical University, OH, USA.
  2. Both are first authors.
  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Akron, OH, USA.
  4. Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Akron, OH, USA.
  5. Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Akron, OH, USA.
  6. Department of Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic Akron General and Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, OH, USA.

PMID: 29904457 PMCID: PMC5997440 DOI: 10.14740/cr690w

Abstract

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is an aggressive and lethal tumor that has a high frequency of metastatic spread to unpredictable sites. One quarter of patients have either distant metastases or significant local-regional disease with atypical symptoms on presentation. We present a 41-year-old patient with symptoms of right heart failure and was found to have metastatic renal cell carcinoma with enhancing tumor from left renal vein up to right atrium.

Keywords: Inferior vena cava; Metastasis; Renal cell carcinoma; Right atrial mass

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

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