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Biventricular cardiac metastasis from vulvar squamous cell carcinoma

Vulvar cancers make up just 3% to 5% of all gynecological cancers, and they are most typically found in postmenopausal women. Vulvar cancer distant metastases are uncommon and usually arise late. Only six cases of vulvar cancer metastasizing to the heart have been reported in the literature, and non...

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Autores principales: Spînu, Ștefan, Sur, Daniel, Pârv, Andreea, Căinap, Călin, Stoia, Petruța, Creciun, Veronica, Bota, Mădălina, Pop, Alina, Bochiș, Ovidiu
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Publicado: UMF “Gr. T. Popa” Iasi Publishing House 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35813496
http://dx.doi.org/10.22551/2022.35.0902.10205
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author Spînu, Ștefan
Sur, Daniel
Pârv, Andreea
Căinap, Călin
Stoia, Petruța
Creciun, Veronica
Bota, Mădălina
Pop, Alina
Bochiș, Ovidiu
author_facet Spînu, Ștefan
Sur, Daniel
Pârv, Andreea
Căinap, Călin
Stoia, Petruța
Creciun, Veronica
Bota, Mădălina
Pop, Alina
Bochiș, Ovidiu
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description Vulvar cancers make up just 3% to 5% of all gynecological cancers, and they are most typically found in postmenopausal women. Vulvar cancer distant metastases are uncommon and usually arise late. Only six cases of vulvar cancer metastasizing to the heart have been reported in the literature, and none of them included both the left and right ventricles. We describe the case of a 68-year-old patient diagnosed with vulvar cancer arising from lichen sclerosus, initially localized, treated with chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy. Less than two months after the end of the treatment sequence, the patient returned to our clinic with bone pain. Imaging investigations have shown multiple disseminated metastases, but not in the heart at that moment. Chemotherapy was initiated, and after two cycles, the patient developed an arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular rate), which was later determined to be caused by cardiac metastases discovered by echocardiography and computed tomography. Vulvar cancer metastatic to the heart represents a rare clinical condition, requiring multidisciplinary care. The case's uniqueness is the biventricular metastasis, which resulted in STEMI despite angiographically normal epicardial coronary arteries
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spelling pubmed-92620842022-07-08 Biventricular cardiac metastasis from vulvar squamous cell carcinoma Spînu, Ștefan Sur, Daniel Pârv, Andreea Căinap, Călin Stoia, Petruța Creciun, Veronica Bota, Mădălina Pop, Alina Bochiș, Ovidiu Arch Clin Cases Case Report Vulvar cancers make up just 3% to 5% of all gynecological cancers, and they are most typically found in postmenopausal women. Vulvar cancer distant metastases are uncommon and usually arise late. Only six cases of vulvar cancer metastasizing to the heart have been reported in the literature, and none of them included both the left and right ventricles. We describe the case of a 68-year-old patient diagnosed with vulvar cancer arising from lichen sclerosus, initially localized, treated with chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy. Less than two months after the end of the treatment sequence, the patient returned to our clinic with bone pain. Imaging investigations have shown multiple disseminated metastases, but not in the heart at that moment. Chemotherapy was initiated, and after two cycles, the patient developed an arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular rate), which was later determined to be caused by cardiac metastases discovered by echocardiography and computed tomography. Vulvar cancer metastatic to the heart represents a rare clinical condition, requiring multidisciplinary care. The case's uniqueness is the biventricular metastasis, which resulted in STEMI despite angiographically normal epicardial coronary arteries UMF “Gr. T. Popa” Iasi Publishing House 2022-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9262084/ /pubmed/35813496 http://dx.doi.org/10.22551/2022.35.0902.10205 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Spînu, Ștefan
Sur, Daniel
Pârv, Andreea
Căinap, Călin
Stoia, Petruța
Creciun, Veronica
Bota, Mădălina
Pop, Alina
Bochiș, Ovidiu
Biventricular cardiac metastasis from vulvar squamous cell carcinoma
title Biventricular cardiac metastasis from vulvar squamous cell carcinoma
title_full Biventricular cardiac metastasis from vulvar squamous cell carcinoma
title_fullStr Biventricular cardiac metastasis from vulvar squamous cell carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Biventricular cardiac metastasis from vulvar squamous cell carcinoma
title_short Biventricular cardiac metastasis from vulvar squamous cell carcinoma
title_sort biventricular cardiac metastasis from vulvar squamous cell carcinoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35813496
http://dx.doi.org/10.22551/2022.35.0902.10205
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