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01.02.2014 | e-Herz: Case study
Right ventricular metastasis of lung cancer
Persistent ST-segment elevation and constrictive physiology
verfasst von:
Dr. A. Cincin, F. Samedov, I. Sari, M. Sunbul, K. Tigen, B. Mutlu
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Ausgabe 1/2014
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Excerpt
Myocardial metastasis of lung cancer is a rare clinical problem that influences a patient’s prognosis because of complications such as fatal arrhythmias or heart failure. Although secondary cardiac tumors have been found in 10.7%– 25% of autopsy cases with malignant tumors, an antemortem diagnosis is not easily made [
1,
2]. In this report, we present a patient with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the lung with heart metastasis and constrictive pericarditis-like physiology that was identified by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging, fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET), and right heart catheterization (RHC). …