Why the study?
Cardiac metastases are rare, can mimic acute myocardial infarction on electrocardiogram, and are prone to misdiagnosis when tumor history is unknown.
Cardiac metastasis from advanced malignancies like urachal carcinoma can present with ST-segment elevation mimicking acute myocardial infarction, highlighting the need for careful differential diagnosis in patients with a known cancer history.
May mimic ACS on ECG in urachal carcinoma; leaves open broader differentials for ST-T changes in advanced malignancies.
Urachal carcinoma (Ur C) is a rare invasive tumor, prevalent in males, with a poor prognosis, and most of them are in an advanced stage at the time of diagnosis. Cardiac metastatic tumors are relatively rare and usually originate from distant metastases of advanced malignant tumors. When the tumor infiltrates the myocardial tissue and affects the repolarization of the diseased myocardium, the electrocardiogram may show changes in the ST-T segment, which is similar to the electrocardiogram of acute myocardial infarction. During clinical diagnosis and treatment, cardiac metastases are mostly easy to be misdiagnosed or overlooked when the relevant tumor history is unknown. In this paper, we discuss a case of cardiac metastasis of urachal carcinoma suspected to be acute myocardial infarction, and analyze and summarize its clinical features, diagnostic and therapeutic process, and abnormal electrocardiographic changes. In order to provide a reference for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with pericardial metastasis of clinically malignant tumors.
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