Sustained ventricular tachycardia in renal cell carcinoma metastatic to anterior-apical wall of the left ventricle

Europace. 2011 Nov;13(11):1658. doi: 10.1093/europace/eur167. Epub 2011 Jun 28.

Abstract

A 50-year-old man with a history of renal cell carcinoma was admitted with ventricular tachycardia. Echocardiography showed a mass in the apex of the left ventricle. Cardiac magnetic resonance confirmed a mass infiltrating the anterior-apical wall of the left ventricle. This is the first case describing an association between ventricular tachycardia and renal cell carcinoma metastatic to the left ventricle.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / complications*
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / drug therapy
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / secondary*
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Defibrillators, Implantable
  • Drug Therapy
  • Echocardiography
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heart Neoplasms / complications*
  • Heart Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Heart Ventricles* / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms / complications*
  • Kidney Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Kidney Neoplasms / pathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / etiology*
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / physiopathology
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / therapy
  • Treatment Outcome