Heart failure as the first manifestation of renal cell carcinoma

We report the rare case of a patient with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who initially presented to the hospital with symptoms of cardiac failure. Preoperative cardiac studies did not reveal any underlying ischemia. After resection of a large 14-cm left renal tumor, cardiac function was noted t...

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Autores principales: Lee, Chee Meng, Sim, Allen, Kurugulasigamoney, Gunasegaran, Ng, Lay Guat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Urological Association 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4294860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25598941
http://dx.doi.org/10.4111/kju.2015.56.1.82
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author Lee, Chee Meng
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description We report the rare case of a patient with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who initially presented to the hospital with symptoms of cardiac failure. Preoperative cardiac studies did not reveal any underlying ischemia. After resection of a large 14-cm left renal tumor, cardiac function was noted to improve dramatically. We discuss this case of concomitant RCC and nonischemic cardiomyopathy.
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spelling pubmed-42948602015-01-16 Heart failure as the first manifestation of renal cell carcinoma Lee, Chee Meng Sim, Allen Kurugulasigamoney, Gunasegaran Ng, Lay Guat Korean J Urol Case Report We report the rare case of a patient with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who initially presented to the hospital with symptoms of cardiac failure. Preoperative cardiac studies did not reveal any underlying ischemia. After resection of a large 14-cm left renal tumor, cardiac function was noted to improve dramatically. We discuss this case of concomitant RCC and nonischemic cardiomyopathy. The Korean Urological Association 2015-01 2015-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4294860/ /pubmed/25598941 http://dx.doi.org/10.4111/kju.2015.56.1.82 Text en © The Korean Urological Association, 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Heart failure as the first manifestation of renal cell carcinoma
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