Rare Cause for Sudden Right Heart Failure

Right heart failure occurs daily in clinical settings, but an underlying cardiac malignant tumor is very uncommon. We report a case of a 48-year-old man presenting only with palpitations and decompensated heart failure. Echocardiographic imaging revealed a large tumor of the right ventricle. Shortly...

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Main Authors: Amir M. Nia, Natig Gassanov, Matthias Schmidt, Ferdinand Kuhn-Régnier, Erland Erdmann, Fikret Er
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2010.190