The Heart of the Matter

In this case, a man with multiple cardiac symptoms suffers cardiac arrest during his medical evaluation, is revived, and is then treated for a very unusual tumor.

The patient was a 46-year-old, previously healthy man who presented with complaints of shortness of breath and chest heaviness. Further inquiry revealed generalized fatigue and numerous episodes of profuse sweating over the preceding 2 months. A review of systems was otherwise negative.

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 --Evan L. Hardegree, MD, Sandeep M. Patel, MD, Joseph J. Maleszewski, MD, Rick A. Nishimura, MD, Diana S. Dean, MD

 --This article originally appeared in the September 2012 issue of The American Journal of Medicine.