Acute Myocardial Infarction Due to Metastatic Melanoma Tumor Embolization
Embolic myocardial infarction (MI) due to malignancy is a rare clinical entity defined by embolization of cancerous tissue to the coronary arteries. We present the case of a 49-year-old man presenting with an anterolateral MI in the setting of metastatic melanoma tumor embolization.
Authors
- Usman Hasnie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7989-0883)
- Edward Chung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1967-6532)
- Samuel McElwee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5169-8099)
- Syed Hyder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0467-6740)
- Ahmed K. Saleh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4711-8693)
- Carrie Lenneman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0678-7671)
- Darryl Prime
- Paul Benson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3819-6884)
Institutions
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JACC Case Reports
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102793
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac tumors and thrombi
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00