Exertional Dyspnea and Chronotropic Incompetence Caused by Extrinsic Compression of the Right Carotid Body by a Giant Lipoma

Can J Cardiol. 2022 Oct;38(10):1588-1590. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2022.06.009. Epub 2022 Jun 15.

Authors

Stephen L Archer¹, Omar Islam², Ross Walker³, J Alberto Neder⁴, Michel Melanson⁴, Joe Abunassar⁴, Christopher Smith⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Surgery, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

PMID: 35716961
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2022.06.009

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Carotid Body*
Dyspnea / diagnosis
Dyspnea / etiology
Exercise Test
Heart Rate
Humans
Lipoma* / complications
Lipoma* / diagnosis
Lipoma* / surgery

Grants and funding

CIHR/Canada