Symptomatic charcoal heart

• DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jet185
• Publication Date: 2013-10-19T03:27:30Z
• Authors: Mariana Faustino; Joao Abecasis; Antonio Freitas; Rosa Gouveia; Victor Gil
• Keywords: Choroid Neoplasms; Middle Aged; Sensitivity and Specificity; Heart neoplasms; Heart Neoplasms; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Echocardiography; Predictive Value of Tests; Humans; Female; Neoplasias do coração; Melanoma; Pericardium; Ecocardiografia

A 47-year-old woman with a past history of left choroidal malignant melanoma submitted to eye enucleation 13 years before presented to the emergency department because of pleuritic chest pain, shortness of breath, and tiredness. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed pericardial thickening and multiple confluent hypoechoic nodular images, extending into …