Pulmonary embolism originating from germ cell tumor causes severe left ventricular dysfunction in a healthy young adult with full recovery: a case report.
Khaled EleniziRasha AlharthiMichel GalinierPublished in: BMC cardiovascular disorders (2021)
This case raises our awareness of unusual clinical presentation as we report associated left-sided severe heart failure in cancer-related pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary embolism in healthy young adults warrant in-depth causative exploration.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary embolism
- young adults
- heart failure
- left ventricular
- germ cell
- inferior vena cava
- early onset
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- childhood cancer
- oxidative stress
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- optical coherence tomography
- mitral valve
- aortic stenosis
- acute coronary syndrome
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement