Heart failure symptoms, in particular dyspnea, may be difficult to frame in a patient with cancer. We report the case of an oncological patient whose dyspnea could have been attributable to various causes and whose management was challenging in the context of the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)

Cancer patient with unusual dyspnea in the COVID-19 era: challenging management of a rare cardiac tumor / La Malfa, Giovanni; Spallarossa, Paolo; Tini, Giacomo; Sarocchi, Matteo; Salsano, Antonio; Parolari, Giulia; Guadagno, Antonio; Sciallero, Stefania; Porto, Italo; Santini, Francesco. - In: JACC. CASE REPORTS. - ISSN 2666-0849. - 3:5(2021), pp. 823-828. [10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.01.011]

Cancer patient with unusual dyspnea in the COVID-19 era: challenging management of a rare cardiac tumor

Tini, Giacomo;
2021

Abstract

Heart failure symptoms, in particular dyspnea, may be difficult to frame in a patient with cancer. We report the case of an oncological patient whose dyspnea could have been attributable to various causes and whose management was challenging in the context of the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)
2021
covid-19; coronavirus disease-2019; ct; computed tomography; mpnst; malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor; rvot; right ventricular outflow tract; cancer; echocardiography; imaging; right ventricle; shortness of breath
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Cancer patient with unusual dyspnea in the COVID-19 era: challenging management of a rare cardiac tumor / La Malfa, Giovanni; Spallarossa, Paolo; Tini, Giacomo; Sarocchi, Matteo; Salsano, Antonio; Parolari, Giulia; Guadagno, Antonio; Sciallero, Stefania; Porto, Italo; Santini, Francesco. - In: JACC. CASE REPORTS. - ISSN 2666-0849. - 3:5(2021), pp. 823-828. [10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.01.011]
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