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| Title |
Large, mobile, transmitral metastastic osteosarcoma presenting as cardiac arrest
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| Published in |
Echo Research & Practice, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.1530/erp-14-0106 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Clare M. Jackson, Helen E. Ellis, Mark C. Dodd, Laurence O’Toole |
| Abstract |
The present case is an unusual one of a 21-year-old female with a primary osteosarcoma and left lung metastasis presenting following a witnessed pulseless electrical activity cardiac arrest. The electrocardiogram was unremarkable. A computed tomography pulmonary angiogram (CTPA) demonstrated a tumour within the left inferior pulmonary veins. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) revealed a severely hypokinetic left ventricle and a multi-lobulated, mobile mass arising from one of the left pulmonary veins which prolapsed to varying degrees on a beat-to-beat basis back and forth through the mitral valve into the left ventricle (during ventricular diastole) and retracted back into the left atrium (during ventricular systole). The present case demonstrates the importance of performing TTE in an emergency presentation, its influence on diagnosis and, in the present case, its usefulness in aiding the decision to withdraw life-sustaining treatments. It also highlights the importance of considering urgent intervention for a tumour seen to prolapse through the mitral valve because of the real risk of acute obstruction. The present case emphasises the importance of thorough clinical assessment in triggering TTE assessment in a critical care setting.TTE is a portable, radiation-free imaging modality that can aid rapid diagnosis in a deteriorating patient and guide an informed management plan.Many district general hospitals in the UK lack cardiology support and access to echocardiography 'out-of-hours'. TTE, in the hands of an experienced operator, is an invaluable tool in the emergency assessment and management of critically unwell patients and should be available 24 h a day, 7 days a week.Echosonographers and physicians seeing similar dynamic tumour pathology with variable transmission through the mitral valve should bear in mind acute obstruction as a potential consequence and thus consider urgent intervention. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 1 | 20% |
| Argentina | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 3 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 20% |
| Scientists | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 13 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 4 | 31% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 23% |
| Librarian | 1 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 1 | 8% |
| Researcher | 1 | 8% |
| Other | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 2 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 23% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 8% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 6 | 46% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 January 2016.
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#14,278,325
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Echo Research & Practice
#188
of 268 outputs
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#125,960
of 281,411 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Echo Research & Practice
#8
of 8 outputs
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