Secondary heart tumours

Malignant melanoma metastasizing to the heart

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.

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Used literature

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