Abstract
A 42-year-old women presented with shortness of breath, tachycardia and weakness to our department. Five years ago she had been diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma for which an extended hemihepatectomy had been performed.The clinical examination revealed a systolic murmur over the artic region. Echocardiography showed an hypertrophed interventricular septum with signs like those in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Ultrasound demonstrated a cystic mass in the pelvis highly suspicious of a metastasis of a hepatocellular carcinoma. Fine needle biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of a metastatic lesion of hepatocellular carcinoma. Computed tomography demonstrated metastase in the lung and a space-occupying in the interventricular septum. The patients underwent resection of the lung and pelvic metastasis and died a few weeks later.This case demonstrates the rare occurence of a metastasis to the heart, imitating obstructive cardiac myopathy, in a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma.
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