Pulmonary embolism originating from germ cell tumor causes severe left ventricular dysfunction in a healthy young adult with full recovery: a case report

BACKGROUND: Cancer associated thrombosis is recognized. However, pulmonary embolism (PE) from testicular cancer is rarely reported. Right ventricular (RV) function and PE are closely related. The RV cannot cope with a sudden increase in afterload because of PE and this causes dysfunction, but isolat...

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Autores principales: Elenizi, Khaled, Alharthi, Rasha, Galinier, Michel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8157733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34039259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-021-02066-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8157733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34039259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-021-02066-7

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