A monthly publication of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology and considered the main channel for the promotion of Brazilian cardiovascular research.
ISSN 0066-782X
eISSN 1678-4170
Mariana Tinoco
, Margarida Castro
, Hans Dabó, Filipa Cordeiro, Pedro von Hafe, [...]
Mariana Tinoco
, Margarida Castro
, Hans Dabó, Filipa Cordeiro, Pedro von Hafe, [...]
A 52-year-old male was undergoing first-line chemotherapy with pemetrexed due to a stage IV right hilar lung adenocarcinoma with likely pleural, pericardial, liver, and bone metastases. During follow-up, no evidence of disease progression was found. Four years later a follow-up chest CT scan documented a nodular heterogeneous enhancement of the left ventricular (LV) myocardium (), the remaining lesions were overlapping. He had no cardiovascular symptoms and clinical examination was unremarkable. Transthoracic echocardiography () and cardiac MRI (Figures 1C-E) revealed several […]
Keywords: Cardioncology; Diagnostic, Imaging/methods; Echocardiography / methods; Multimodal Imaging; NADPH Oxidase; Neoplasm Metastasis