Intracardiac extension of a lung tumor causing left ventricular inflow obstruction

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1995 Nov-Dec;8(6):930-3. doi: 10.1016/s0894-7317(05)80019-7.

Abstract

A patient with the diagnosis of small cell lung cancer had syncopal episodes. The tumor was found to invade the right upper pulmonary vein with extension into the left atrium. The mass was protruding across the mitral valve producing ball-valve blockade. In this report the echocardiographic signs of a primary lung tumor with intraatrial extension causing left ventricular inflow tract obstruction are described.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Carcinoma, Small Cell / complications*
  • Carcinoma, Small Cell / pathology
  • Echocardiography
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Heart Atria
  • Heart Neoplasms / complications*
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / complications*
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / diagnostic imaging
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / etiology*