Unusual echocardiographic finding as cause of acute coronary syndrome with ST- segment elevation

Med Ultrason. 2023 Sep 29;25(3):352-354. doi: 10.11152/mu-3741. Epub 2022 Oct 3.

Abstract

Biventricular metastatic heart tumors from gynecological malignancies presented as an acute coronary syndrome with ST segment elevation are an unusual finding. We present a case of stage-4 vulvar carcinoma that metastasized in both the left and right ventricle. The particularity of the case is the echocardiographic aspect in the emergency room: multiple, large, hyperechogenic masses disseminated in the myocardium, with pericardial extension, in context of acute coronary syndrome with ST segment elevation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Coronary Syndrome* / diagnostic imaging
  • Acute Coronary Syndrome* / etiology
  • Acute Coronary Syndrome* / pathology
  • Echocardiography
  • Electrocardiography / methods
  • Heart
  • Humans
  • Myocardium / pathology