Case Report: Refusal of an Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Due to Malignant Disease? — An Extremely Rare Form of Cardiac Involvement in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Case Report: Refusal of an Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Due to Malignant Disease? — An Extremely Rare Form of Cardiac Involvement in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

We report here on a 61-year-old patient with acute right heart failure of unclear etiology. Echocardiography revealed a myocardial mass infiltrating the heart, though, we assumed a cardiac lymphoma. A VA-ECMO was implanted as bridging for diagnosis and therapy. Our patient received chemotherapy, und...

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Main Authors: Viviane Zotzmann, Tobias Wengenmayer, Corinna N. Lang, Dawid L. Staudacher, Katharina Mueller-Peltzer, Fabian Bamberg, Reinhard Marks, Christoph Bode, Ralph Wäsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
Subjects:
extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia
cardiac myeloid sarcoma
veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
right heart failure
ECLS
AML
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.584507/full

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