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- Title
Metastázy malígneho melanómu do myokardu -- raritná příčina srdcového zlyhania.
- Authors
MIHALIČOVÁ, L.; GAVEL, A.; NOVAČEKOVÁ, M.; BALIŠ, P.; DRAŽILOVÁ, S.
- Abstract
The malignant melanoma is an aggressive disease with a high potential of spreading metastases to any organ, heart included. We are presenting a patient, by whom a generalisation of the heart disease was manifested by a heart failure sixteen years after extirpation of malignant melanoma. The diagnose was made after patient's death. Studies of necroptic material show that malignant melanoma creates metastases to heart in 50-64% of the cases. However, because of the default of specific clinical cases and the limited possibilities of using imaging techniques the diagnose is mostly declared after the death of the patient. That is why it is necessary in patients with history taking of malignant melanoma to think about tumour generalisation by every cardiac symptom.
- Publication
General Practitioner / Praktický Lékař, 2017, Vol 97, Issue 6, p274
- ISSN
0032-6739
- Publication type
Article