Two Cases of Cardiac Aspergillosis with Initial Onset of Arrhythmia during Therapy of Acute Leukemia
| Autor: | Hironari Niiya, Masaki Yasukawa, Shigeru Fujita, Hitoshi Hasegawa, Kikue Iwamasa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Heart Diseases Acute myeloblastic leukemia medicine.medical_treatment Aspergillosis Internal medicine medicine Humans cardiovascular diseases Aged Aged 80 and over Plasma cell leukemia Chemotherapy Acute leukemia Leukopenia business.industry Arrhythmias Cardiac Atrial fibrillation General Medicine medicine.disease Leukemia Myeloid Acute cardiovascular system Cardiology Female medicine.symptom business Atrioventricular block |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases. 75:155-160 |
| ISSN: | 1884-569X 0387-5911 |
| DOI: | 10.11150/kansenshogakuzasshi1970.75.155 |
| Popis: | We have reported two women, aged 86 and 84 years, with cardiac aspergillosis with initial onset of arrhythmia during chemotherapy of acute myeloblastic leukemia and primary plasma cell leukemia, respectively. In leukopenia followed by chemotherapy, they suddenly had arrhythmias with high fever. The former had cardiac infarction with complete atrioventricular block and the latter was also cardiac infarction following to atrial fibrillation. In both cases, cardiac aspergillosis was not diagnosed by echocardigraphy but by autopsy. Since cardiac aspergillosis dose not have characteristic features clinically or examinationally, we need to consider arrhythmias revealed in leukopenia as one symptom of cardiac aspergillosis. |
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