High-output cardiac failure in a patient with prostate cancer

The authors describe a case of high-output cardiac failure in a patient with rapidly progressing prostate cancer for which no previously described cause could be found. His new onset and increasingly worsening heart failure corresponded to the rapid spread of his prostate cancer. The authors hypothesize that a cytokine released from the neoplastic cells or the bone was responsible for the high-output cardiac failure observed in this patient. (c)2001 CHF, Inc.