Cardiac metastasis in colon cancer: A case report
Abstract
Cardiac masses are a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. They are often found incidentally and assessment eventually confirms the presence of a heart tumor. They are neoplasms that originate in any layer of the heart and are divided into primary and secondary. The primary ones have a 0.001 - 0.03% incidence in autopsies, contrasting with the 20-40 times higher frequency of the secondary ones. We present the case of a 28-year-old patient diagnosed one year before with infiltrating transverse colon adenocarcinoma in whom intra-abdominal lymph node chain metastases were confirmed three months ago, receiving surgical treatment and chemotherapy. Later, he began with tachycardia and presented to his health care center where a transthoracic echocardiogram was performed, which showed a tumor-like image in the right ventricle. The CT-scan showed an unresectable complex tumor mass and the patient died at home, under palliative care, a month or so after discharge.
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