title: Advanced heart block as a manifestation of a paraneoplastic syndrome from malignant thymoma.
abstract: Malignant thymoma is a rare tumor that is associated with paraneoplastic syndrome. Myocarditis as a paraneoplastic syndrome has been rarely described. Reported herein is a young male patient with malignant thymoma and myocarditis as part of a paraneoplastic syndrome. This resulted in high-degree heart block and an asystolic cardiac arrest despite placement of a permanent pacemaker.
authors.affiliation: Section of Cardiology, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. wpentz@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Pentz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000209:etiology; D006327:Heart Block / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000175:diagnosis; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D010257:Paraneoplastic Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013945:Thymoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*