Primary cardiac lymphoma presenting as atrial flutter and total heart block
| Autor: | Igor Aurer, Joško Bulum, Ljiljana Banfić, Maja Strozzi, Dražen Jelašić |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Heart block medicine.medical_treatment primary cardiac lymphoma atrial flutter Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Heart neoplasms Echocardiography Chemotherapy Heart Neoplasms Internal medicine hemic and lymphatic diseases Biopsy medicine Humans Aged medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Lymphoma Non-Hodgkin medicine.disease Lymphoma Cardiac surgery Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma Heart Block medicine.anatomical_structure Atrial Flutter Cardiology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Echocardiography Transesophageal Atrial flutter Interatrial septum |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00380-006-0924-2 |
| Popis: | Primary cardiac lymphoma is extremely rare. We present a case of 70-year old man with primary cardiac lymphoma involving interatrial septum, presenting as atrial flutter and total heart block. The diagnosis was obtained by echocardiography guided transvenous endocardial biopsy which revealed diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, CD 20 +. After six courses of immunochemotherapy the patient achieved a complete remission. After two months he developed a series of epileptic attacks. Intracerebral lymphoma extension was diagnosed. Two cycles of high dose of methotrexate and cranial irradiation were applied resulting in a second complete remission. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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