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[Mediastinal tumor revealed by myocardial infarction]
M Borentain1, F Raoux, C Le Feuvre
1Département de cardiologie médicale, groupe hospitalier La Pitié-La Salpêtrière, 75651 Paris.
Archives Des Maladies Du Coeur Et Des Vaisseaux
|December 5, 2002
Abstract:
We report the case of a patient with a past history of coronary atherosclerosis treated with primary angioplasty 5 hours following an inferior myocardial infarction. Echocardiography performed during the procedure revealed a mediastinal tumour invading the tricuspid, responsible for the occlusion of the right coronary. Infarction due to tumour compression is a rare presentation of mediastinal tumour. Diagnosis relies on echocardiographic, CT or magnetic resonance imaging. The prognosis is linked to the tumour pathology.