Cardiogenic shock due to neoplastic infiltration of cardiac muscle.
We present a patient with cardiogenic shock resulting from extensive neoplastic infiltration of the inferolateral left ventricular cardiac muscle by an epidermoid carcinoma of the lower third of the oesophagus.
Mansur
A de P
Ade P
Inśtituto do Coracao do Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Ramires
J A
JA
de Oliveira Filho
J L
JL
D001706:Biopsy; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left