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Dyspnoea in a cancer patient
  1. Thomas S Metkus,
  2. Theodore Abraham
  1. Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Thomas S Metkus, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1800 Orleans St/Zayed 7125, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; tmetkus{at}jhmi.edu

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2015-308153

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    Clinical Introduction

    A 32-year-old woman with a history of adenocarcinoma presents with progressive dyspnoea evoked by activities of daily living, lower extremity oedema, and abdominal bloating and distention. An echocardiogram is performed with M-mode and Doppler images shown in Figure 1.

    Figure 1

    (A) M-mode at the mid-ventricular level. (B) Pulsed wave Doppler of mitral inflow. (C) Tissue Doppler of the medial mitral annulus. (D) Tissue Doppler of the lateral mitral annulus.

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    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

    • ▸ Additional material is published online only. To view please visit the journal online (http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2015-308153).

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