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Acute myocardial infarction: a rare presentation of pancreatic carcinoma
M A Cook1, E J Sanchez, J J Lopez
1Department of Radiology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York, USA.
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
|April 7, 1999
Abstract:
Secondary neoplastic involvement of the heart is common but usually asymptomatic. Malignancy rarely presents as acute pericarditis, cardiac tamponade, and myocardial infarction in the same patient. We report a patient with unsuspected metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma who presented with acute pericarditis and cardiac tamponade and subsequently developed a myocardial infarction due to coronary artery occlusion secondary to a metastatic deposit around the left anterior descending artery.