Secondary malignant tumors of the pericardium, common treatment methods

Pericardial tumors are very rare. There are benign and secondary types. The most common type is the secondary type. Generally, benign pericardial tumors are not easy to detect and have no obvious symptoms. Secondary pericardial tumors must be treated in time to control the progression of the disease.

1. Treatment methods

Symptomatic treatment and repeated pericardiocentesis to aspirate the effusion are effective ways to relieve pericardial tamponade.

If it can be used in combination with immune preparations such as 3 million units of interferon, injected subcutaneously 2 to 3 times a week for a long time, it can enhance immunity, inhibit the development of cancer, and may prolong the remission period, improve survival ability and quality of life.

Symptoms of Secondary Pericardial Tumors

Most of the symptoms and signs are pericardial effusion and pericardial tamponade, while the symptoms and signs of primary organ malignant tumors are often more severe than those of pericardial tumors, and therefore are not characteristic. Pericardial metastatic tumors are sometimes discovered only during autopsy.

When diagnosing primary cancerous lesions (such as lung cancer), if abnormal pericardial and heart morphology is found, accompanied by pericardial effusion and pericardial tamponade, the possibility of secondary pericardial tumors should be considered. When bloody fluid is drawn through pericardial puncture, the diagnosis is established.

3. Pathological causes

Secondary pericardial tumors are far more common than primary tumors. Among them, metastasis of malignant tumors from various organs in the body to the pericardium is the most common, such as breast cancer, Adgekin's disease, leukemia and malignant melanoma; malignant tumors directly spread to the pericardium, the most common of which are bronchial lung cancer, breast cancer, and mediastinal malignant tumors (seminoma, embryonal carcinoma, pheochromocytoma, etc.).