Poorly Differentiated Lung Cancer with Intracardiac Extension Causing Malignant Stroke in a Peritoneal Dialysis Patient: a Case Report

• DOI: 10.1007/s42399-022-01331-w
• Publication Date: 2022-11-14T13:03:09Z
• Authors: Sahil Bagai; Vipra Malik; Pallavi Prasad; Priyanka Singh; Amit Sahu; Dinesh Khullar
• Keywords: Stroke; Presentation (obstetrics)

Cardiac involvement occurs in an almost one quarter of all the patients with lung cancer. Lymphatogenous spread is a more common route of tumor dissemination than the hematogenous spread. It was a retrospective case report. We hereby report a case of myocardial involvement by non-small cell lung cancer leading to an uncommon presentation of a malignant stroke and death in a peritoneal dialysis patient.