Secondary heart tumours

It is a metastatic involvement of the heart:
 * No tumor (except malignant melanoma) metastasizes exclusively to the heart,
 * cardiac metastases: malignant melanoma, bronchogenic carcinoma, breast cancer,
 * clinically: acute pericarditis, cardiac tamponade, rapid enlargement of the cardiac shadow, arrhythmias including atrioventricular block, rapid development of heart failure (but 90% of metastases are clinically silent),
 * therapy: main firing: pericardiocentesis for effusion, radiotherapy, chemotherapy.

Used literature

 * KLENER, P, et al. Vnitřní lékařství. 3. vydání. Praha : Galén, 2006.  ISBN 80-7262-430-X.