Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
Open Access

High output cardiac failure in a patient presenting with acute myeloid leukemia and leukostasis

11^th Annual Cardiology Summit

September 12-13, 2016 Philadelphia, USA

Jeffrey Maldonado and Angel Lopez Candales

University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, USA

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Clin Exp Cardiolog

Abstract :

In this case report, a patient presents with high-output cardiac failure in the clinical setting of acute leukemia and leukostasis. Case particulars are presented, literature is reviewed and a potential mechanistic explanation is proposed to describe presentation and clinical findings.

Biography :

Jeffrey Maldonado has completed his Medical School from Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena (UNPHU) in the Dominican Republic in 2008. He is 3rd year resident of Internal Medicine at San Juan City Hospital in San Juan Puerto Rico. He has presented a poster presentation in the ACP in Boston 2015 named “An atypical case of autoimmune hepatitis in a 88 year old men”, Jeffrey also won first place at the research presentation in the ACP in Puerto in October 2015, named “Can Monocytosis be used as Independent Variable for diagnose of Deep vein thrombosis”. Besides that, Jeffrey went to the Jeopardy of the ACP to represent Puerto Rico during years 2014 and 2015.

Email: jeffreymaldo@gmail.com