[Echocardiography as a first diagnostic step in kidney tumours]

Kardiol Pol. 2011;69(8):849-53.
[Article in Polish]

Abstract

Intracardiac tumours are usually found after clinical symptoms lead to a positive imaging study, or as an incidental finding of imaging study, usually echocardiography. Cardiac tumours range from non-neoplastic lesions to high grade malignancies. The majority of primary cardiac tumours are myxomas (in 75% cases) or sarcomas (about 10% cases). In this paper we present cases of 2 patients with right atrial tumour, extending from renal carcinoma, invading renal vein and inferior vena cava into right atrium. Two different therapeutic strategies were undertaken in those patients.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Echocardiography*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Heart Atria / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Neoplasms / therapy
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Kidney Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Kidney Neoplasms / therapy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged