| Autor: |
Porcar Ramells C; Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitari de Girona, Dr. Josep Trueta, C/Av. de França, s/n. 17007-Girona., Clemente González C, García Parés D, Guardia Sánchez R, Pérez Ayuso MJ, García-Bragado Dalmau F |
| Jazyk: |
Spanish; Castilian |
| Zdroj: |
Anales de medicina interna (Madrid, Spain : 1984) [An Med Interna] 2002 Jun; Vol. 19 (6), pp. 305-9. |
| Abstrakt: |
The primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is an extremely infrequent tumor suffered by immunocompetent patients with a difficult diagnosis and slow progress leading to a serious prognosis and few therapeutically possibilities. It's a primary-cardiac non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) in a patient of 46-year-old, immunocompetent, who started with a congestive heart failure and atrial flutter. Some examinations were carried out such as a transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), a computed tomography (TC) and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and an intracardiac tumor placed in the interauricular septum was detected. The diagnosis was based on a pleural fluid cytological examination. It was decided to follow a chemotherapy treatment and the autologous peripheral blood stem cells transplantation was carried out. The patient remains in full remission thirty-six months after diagnosis and twenty-nine months after the autotransplant. Our clinical experience indicated that an early and accurate diagnosis combined with the appropriate and aggressive antilymphoma therapy can thus help in obtaining a long survival in patients with PCL. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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