Cervical cancer with patent foramen ovale metastasis to the left ventricle: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Metastasis of malignant tumors to the cardiac endocardium is rare and mainly involves the right side of the heart. It is extremely rare to involve the left cardiac endocardium, especially when there is neither pulmonary metastasis nor primary lung cancer, which we call "isolated" left cardiac endocardium metastasis in this paper. Few such cases previously reported in the literature were not screened for patent foramen ovale (PFO).

Case presentation

This article reports a case of a young woman with a history of surgery for cervical cancer, who was transferred to our hospital with a suspected diagnosis of PFO after recent recurrent multiple cerebral infarctions. On admission, transthoracic echocardiography revealed multiple stringy vegetations in the left ventricle,

SUBMITTER: Huang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11608483 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature