[Cardiac involvement in 2 cases of XXXX . Course of cardiac involvement under chemotherapy].

@entity1 @entity706 @entity75 @entity2294 @entity299 @entity1893
In a recently published post-mortem series the incidence of @entity299 in @entity706 was estimated at about 8.7%. These lesions rarely produce specific cardiac symptoms; they usually are late manifestations of a disease with @entity75 or are discovered at autopsy. In most @entity1 the lesions are not limited to the heart but represent the extension to that organ of a @entity706 . We observed two cases of @entity299 secondary to malignant @entity1893 and we were able to evaluate their response to chemotherapy. In the first @entity1 the cardiac symptoms revealed the @entity706 ; in the second @entity1 the cardiac involvement was discovered 4 years after the @entity706 was diagnosed. In both cases the @entity299 were detected by two-dimensional echocardiography. They presented as polypoid masses filling the right atrium and associated with periaortic thickening in the first case, and as a large heterogeneous mass including a tricuspid valve leaflet and extending to the free wall of the right ventricle in the second case. @entity2294 was present in the two @entity1 . These echocardiographic findings were confirmed computerized tomography and catheterization. In the first case, followed up for one year, the echocardiographic images reverted to normality after chemotherapy. The second @entity1 , unfortunately, did not respond to chemotherapy and deteriorated rapidly.
