Electrocardiographic changes in lung cancer. Be careful not to misdiagnose: acute coronary event? meta? inflammation? Case report
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Apr 7, 2024
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electrocardiogram, lung cancer, myocardial oedema
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In cancer patients changes in the electrocardiogram (ECG) may indicate various causes. The presented case concerns a patient with advanced left lung cancer who presented deep inversion of T waves during ongoing chemotherapy. We excluded acute coronary syndrome, acute pulmonary embolism, and myocarditis. Subsequently, we suspected metastases to the myocardium; therefore, we performed cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, which however did not confirm that. The cardiac magnetic resonance imaging showed residual post-inflammatory changes in the left lung. We publish this case to show that the inflammatory process of lung segments adjacent to the heart may cause temporal myocardial oedema, resulting in ECG changes that may mimic acute coronary events.
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Styczkiewicz K, Kostkiewicz A, Górecki M, Iwański MA. Electrocardiographic changes in lung cancer. Be careful not to misdiagnose: acute coronary event? meta? inflammation?. OncoReview [Internet]. 2024Apr.7 [cited 2024Dec.4];14(1(53):16-0. Available from: https://journalsmededu.pl/index.php/OncoReview/article/view/3012
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21. Kukla P, Długopolski R, Krupa E et al. How often pulmonary embolism mimics acute coronary syndrome? Kardiol Pol. 2011; 69: 235-40.
22. Migliore F, Zorzi A, Marra MP et al. Myocardial edema underlies dynamic T-wave inversion (Wellens' ECG pattern) in patients with reversible left ventricular dysfunction. Heart Rhythm. 2011; 8: 1629-34. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.04.035.
23. Kunishige R, Matsuoka Y, Yoshimura R et al. Cardiac metastasis of lung cancer presented as mimicking ST-elevation myocardial infarction with reciprocal electrocardiographic changes. J Cardiol Cases. 2022; 26: 173-7. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jccase.2022.04.004.
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25. Shenoy C, Grizzard JD, Shah DJ et al. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in suspected cardiac tumour: a multicentre outcomes study. Eur Heart J. 2021; 43: 71-80. http://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab635.
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