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  • Title: Congestive heart failure due to rapid right ventricular obliteration by metastatic malignant melanoma.
    Author: Rusconi C, Faggiano P, Ghizzoni G, Sorgato A, Minzioni G, Sabatini T.
    Journal: Minerva Cardioangiol; 1996 Mar; 44(3):123-5. PubMed ID: 8767611.
    Abstract:
    We describe a 47-year-old man with a history of malignant melanoma, starting with a resection from his left thigh and followed, 4 years later, by a metastatic melanoma in the right ventricle. Within a few days, hemodynamic compromise occurred combined with evidence of an impressive intracavitary growth of the tumor causing obstruction of the right ventricular inflow and outflow tract. Echocardiography was valuable in the assessment of neoplastic cardiac involvement and was useful in detecting rapid right ventricular cavity obliteration by the expansion of the metastatic mass.
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