Obesity and coronary intervention: should we continue to use Body Mass Index as a risk factor?

Background: Central anthropometric indexes are better than the body mass index to discriminate elevated coronary risk. However, the Body Mass Index (BMI) is still the most frequently studied anthropometric index on outcomes of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PCI).

Objective: To recognize, among several anthropometric indexes of obesity, which one best discriminates MACE (Major Adverse Cardiac Events) after PCI.

Metastatic tumor of squamous cell carcinoma from uterine cervix to heart: ante-mortem diagnosis.

Sixty-three-year-old woman with a past medical history of uterine cancer and complaint of fatigue and dyspnea on mild exertion. Physical examination revealed hypertension and rales at lung bases. A transthoracic echocardiogram showed a mass with reduced mobility in the right ventricle.