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Symptomatic cardiac metastasis responding to pazopanib in a patient with renal cell carcinoma

Ramin Behzadigohar, Mark A. Rosenthal, Ben Tran

1 Department of Medical Oncology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Grattan St, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Address correspondence to Dr. Ramin Behzadigohar, Department of Medical Oncology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Grattan St, Parkville VIC, Australia

Canadian Journal of Urology 2015, 22(3), 7824-7826.

Abstract

We report a case of an 82-year-old man with renal cell carcinoma who developed a cardiac metastasis within the interventricular septum. He had been under watchful waiting for indolent metastatic renal cell carcinoma for many years before developing symptoms consistent with heart failure. At this time, a 44 mm interventricular septal mass, consistent with a cardiac metastasis, was identified as the cause of his symptoms. Pazopanib was initiated which led to both a clinical and radiological response.

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