Key Clinical Message
In treatment-resistant right ventricular tumours, it is essential to
consider the natural progression and potential circulatory complications
of the malignancy. Physicians should inform patients regarding these
possibilities and prepare for appropriate, end-of-life, palliative care.
Abstract: This video describes the presentation and
deteriorating clinical course of a 74-year-old woman with a dry cough
who was diagnosed with a metastatic right ventricular-pulmonary artery
tumour with disseminated intravascular coagulation. She died within a
few days of palliative care at home after multidisciplinary treatment.
Clinicians should consider the possibility of a rapidly worsening
metastatic right ventricular-pulmonary artery tumour.