{"id":31796,"date":"2020-04-27T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/?p=31796"},"modified":"2020-04-27T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T01:20:00","slug":"malignancy-invading-heart-cardiology-mcq-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/malignancy-invading-heart-cardiology-mcq-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Malignancy invading heart &#8211; Cardiology MCQ &#8211; Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ikNeXHpTCcQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Malignancy invading heart &#8211; Cardiology MCQ &#8211; Answer<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Malignancy least likely to metastasize to the heart &#8211; Correct answer: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: #0000ff;\">d) Prostate<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malignancy invading heart: More aggressive ones like those from breast, lung, hematological malignancies and melanoma are more likely to metastasise to heart. Slow growing tumours like carcinoma prostate is very unlikely to metastasise to the heart [1]. Primary tumours of the heart are much less common (0.01% and 0.1%) than secondaries (0.7% and 3.5%) [2].<\/p>\n<p>Different ways of spreading of metastases to heart:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Direct extension: Carcinoma lung<\/li>\n<li>Hematogenous spread: Melanoma, lymphoma. Generally leads to myocardial or endocardial metastasis.<\/li>\n<li>Retrograde lymphatic spread: Carcinoma breast. Lymphatic spread leads to pericardial and epicardial involvement.<\/li>\n<li>Extension through the veins: Renal cell carcinoma &#8211; grows through renal vein into inferior vena cava and right atrium. Often mistaken for right <a href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/left-atrial-myxoma-echocardiogram-in-parasternal-long-axis-view\/\">atrial myxoma<\/a> on echocardiography.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Most common metastases are from lung cancer (36 &#8211; 39%), with those from breast cancer being 10-12% and those from hematological malignancies 10-21%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/malignancy-invading-heart-cardiology-mcq\/\"><strong>Back to question<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Reference<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Maleszewski JJ, Bois MC, Bois JP, Young PM, Stulak JM, Klarich KW. Neoplasia and the Heart: Pathological Review of Effects With Clinical and Radiological Correlation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 Jul 10;72(2):202-227.<\/li>\n<li>Goldberg AD, Blankstein R, Padera RF. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/full\/10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.000790\">Tumors metastatic to the heart<\/a>. Circulation. 2013 Oct 15;128(16):1790-4.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malignancy invading heart &#8211; Cardiology MCQ &#8211; Answer Malignancy least likely to metastasize to the heart &#8211; Correct answer: d) Prostate Malignancy invading heart: More aggressive ones like those from breast, lung, hematological malignancies and melanoma are more likely to metastasise to heart. Slow growing tumours like carcinoma prostate is very unlikely to metastasise to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardio-oncology","category-cardiology-mcq","category-dm-dnb-cardiology-entrance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malignancy invading heart - Cardiology MCQ - Answer - All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Malignancy invading heart - more aggressive ones like breast, lung, melanoma and lymphoma are more likely to metastasise to heart unlike from prostate.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/malignancy-invading-heart-cardiology-mcq-answer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malignancy invading heart - Cardiology MCQ - Answer - All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Malignancy invading heart - more aggressive ones like breast, lung, melanoma and lymphoma are more likely to metastasise to heart unlike from prostate.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/malignancy-invading-heart-cardiology-mcq-answer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-27T01:20:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Johnson Francis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Johnson Francis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johnsonfrancis.org\\\/professional\\\/malignancy-invading-heart-cardiology-mcq-answer\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johnsonfrancis.org\\\/professional\\\/malignancy-invading-heart-cardiology-mcq-answer\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Johnson Francis\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johnsonfrancis.org\\\/professional\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5441d907049b914770f4bd98fb57feec\"},\"headline\":\"Malignancy invading heart &#8211; 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