Morosin Marco, Azzu Alessia, Capoccia Massimo, Rosendahl Ulrich
Adult Intensive Care Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Aortic and Cardiac Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
J Card Surg. 2019 Sep;34(9):858-859. doi: 10.1111/jocs.14184. Epub 2019 Aug 2.
We report an unusual clinical case of a 66-year-old patient with cardiac involvement from a metastatic melanoma, causing the formation of a large right atrial mass with extensive infiltration of the right atrial free wall, the interatrial septum, the coronary sinus, and up to the mitral annulus and posterior wall of the right ventricle, unamendable to complete surgical excision. As secondary cardiac tumors are not part of routine daily clinical practice, we thought that this clinical case would be a good educational opportunity for the practicing clinicians, both specialists and nonspecialists.
我们报告了一例罕见的临床病例,一名66岁患者因转移性黑色素瘤累及心脏,导致右心房形成巨大肿块,右心房游离壁、房间隔、冠状窦广泛受侵,直至二尖瓣环和右心室后壁,无法进行完整的手术切除。由于继发性心脏肿瘤并非日常临床实践的常规内容,我们认为这个临床病例对执业临床医生(包括专科医生和非专科医生)来说是一个很好的教育机会。