Fatal progressive right heart failure in a pancreatic cancer patient

Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (PTTM) is a rare but fatal complication of cancer and causes pulmonary hypertension and acute/subacute right heart failure. PTTM is most commonly associated with gastric cancer and more rarely associated with pancreatic cancer. We report a case of progressi...

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Autores principales: Byoun, Jeong Tae, Cho, Jae Young
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yeungnam University College of Medicine 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7142028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31661753
http://dx.doi.org/10.12701/yujm.2019.00332
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description Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (PTTM) is a rare but fatal complication of cancer and causes pulmonary hypertension and acute/subacute right heart failure. PTTM is most commonly associated with gastric cancer and more rarely associated with pancreatic cancer. We report a case of progressive right heart failure associated with clinically diagnosed pancreatic cancer, suggesting PTTM.
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spelling pubmed-71420282020-04-13 Fatal progressive right heart failure in a pancreatic cancer patient Byoun, Jeong Tae Cho, Jae Young Yeungnam Univ J Med Case Report Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (PTTM) is a rare but fatal complication of cancer and causes pulmonary hypertension and acute/subacute right heart failure. PTTM is most commonly associated with gastric cancer and more rarely associated with pancreatic cancer. We report a case of progressive right heart failure associated with clinically diagnosed pancreatic cancer, suggesting PTTM. Yeungnam University College of Medicine 2019-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7142028/ /pubmed/31661753 http://dx.doi.org/10.12701/yujm.2019.00332 Text en Copyright © 2020 Yeungnam University College of Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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