A CASE OF SECONDARY PULMONARY-HYPERTENSION DUE TO MICROSCOPIC PULMONARY TUMOR-CELL EMBOLISM FROM GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA

Authors
DELUIS DA DARRIBA J SANMIGUEL P RULL SG CUESTA C FOGUE L
Citation
Da. Deluis et al., A CASE OF SECONDARY PULMONARY-HYPERTENSION DUE TO MICROSCOPIC PULMONARY TUMOR-CELL EMBOLISM FROM GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA, Respiration, 64(3), 1997, pp. 244-246
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Respiratory System
Journal title
Respiration → ACNP
ISSN journal
00257931
Volume
64
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
244 - 246
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-7931(1997)64:3<244:ACOSPD>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
We describe a case of subacute cor pulmonale caused by tumor embolism from a gallbladder carcinoma in a 63-year-old woman. The patient was a dmitted to hospital with increasing dyspnea. Physical examination and echocardiography showed signs of pulmonary hypertension, She died of c irculatory failure. At autopsy microscopic studies revealed tumor embo lism in the pulmonary vessels and subsequent lesions causing the letha l pulmonary hypertension. This is the first case report of pulmonary h ypertension caused by embolism from a gallbladder carcinoma in the lit erature worldwide.