Hepatocellular carcinoma with right atrial extension in a young patient with congenitally unguarded tricuspid orifice

Echocardiography. 2006 May;23(5):417-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00226.x.

Abstract

We report a case of a young female patient with congenitally unguarded tricuspid orifice and underdeveloped pulmonary valve leaflets, who had developed severe right-sided congestive heart failure and cardiac cirrhosis early in life. She was admitted to our hospital with deterioration of dyspnea and abdominal tenderness. Hepatocellular carcinoma was diagnosed on the basis of computed tomography findings, high plasma alpha-fetoprotein levels and evidence of chronic hepatitis B viral infection. Transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a mass into the right atrium, considered to be an extension of the tumor.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / diagnosis*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / secondary
  • Echocardiography
  • Female
  • Fibrosis / etiology
  • Heart Atria / pathology
  • Heart Failure / etiology
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Hepatitis B, Chronic / diagnosis
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Liver Neoplasms / pathology
  • Pulmonary Atresia / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Atresia / pathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Tricuspid Valve / abnormalities*
  • Tricuspid Valve / diagnostic imaging