Intracardiac tumours are usually found after clinical symptoms lead to a positive imaging study, or as an incidental finding of
imaging study, usually echocardiography. Cardiac tumours range from non-neoplastic lesions to high grade malignancies.
The majority of primary cardiac tumours are myxomas (in 75% cases) or sarcomas (about 10% cases). In this paper we present
cases of 2 patients with right atrial tumour, extending from renal carcinoma, invading renal vein and inferior vena cava into
right atrium. Two different therapeutic strategies were undertaken in those patients.
Kardiol Pol 2011; 69, 8: 849–85
