DIFFICULTY OF DIAGNOSING METASTATIC BREAST CANCER IN A PATIENT AFTER MINIMALLY INVASIVE AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT: A CLINICAL CASE

Highlights

The article describes a clinical case of a patient with metastatic breast cancer detected after aortic valve replacement. The case was initially treated as sternal osteomyelitis due to ministernotomy performed during aortic valve surgery. However, the diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer with sternal and spinal (third thoracic vertebra) metastatses, and ribs lesion was established upon further study. Adjuvant endocrine therapy was prescribed to the patient due to her age and previous surgery.

Abstract

Breast cancer is an urgent problem in oncology as it remains the most frequent type of cancer in the Russian Federation and world wide. Long-term treatment success and survival of patients depend on selected treatment modality, and long-term postopertive monitoring of patients as the means of the early detection of metastatic recurrence. Furthermore, concominant somatic ilness could change or mask the symptoms of local recurrence or metastasis, resulting in difficulties with establishing the proper diagnosis. We report a clinical case of metastatic breast cancer in a patient with severe aortic stenosis who underwent aortic valve replacement. We have not found analogious cases in domestic and foreign literature.

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