{"title":"Shortness of breath caused by a right ventricular metastasis: a case report.","authors":"Muhammad Qasim Shahid, Suat Loo","doi":"10.5837/bjc.2024.030","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cardiac metastases normally Creflect diffuse metastatic spread of the primary tumour and are rarely found in isolation. We present a case of a 71-year-old man with a history of completely resected high-grade spindle cell sarcoma of the left thigh, who presented with shortness of breath, and was found to have a large right ventricular mass, subsequently diagnosed as a metastasis of the prior sarcoma. It was deemed inoperable and incurable, and the patient was offered palliative chemotherapy. Unfortunately, the patient died within four months of his original presentation.</p>","PeriodicalId":74959,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of cardiology","volume":"31 3","pages":"030"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11795914/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The British journal of cardiology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5837/bjc.2024.030","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cardiac metastases normally Creflect diffuse metastatic spread of the primary tumour and are rarely found in isolation. We present a case of a 71-year-old man with a history of completely resected high-grade spindle cell sarcoma of the left thigh, who presented with shortness of breath, and was found to have a large right ventricular mass, subsequently diagnosed as a metastasis of the prior sarcoma. It was deemed inoperable and incurable, and the patient was offered palliative chemotherapy. Unfortunately, the patient died within four months of his original presentation.