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18657797

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-4-27
pubmed:abstractText
Primary or secondary cardiac lymphomas are not frequent. Their clinical expression is unusual and the diagnosis is rarely made during the patient's life. Our case report, which is a slow atrial flutter with a pericardial effusion, is an uncommon discovery mode for a malignant lymphoma. Their diagnosis and the mechanism of the arythmia were allowed by non-invasive cardiac imagery (transesophageal echography and magnetic resonance imaging), which showed a tumour-like infiltration of the right atrium, of the right ventricle posterior wall, and of the atrioventricular junction. The diagnosis of a high grade B cell malignant non-hodgkin lymphoma, involving the bone marrow, the liver and the kidneys was made by biopsies of lymph nodes, histological analysis of the bone marrow, and a body CT scan. Throughout the first chemotherapy sequence, we observed a spontaneous return to a sinusal rhythm, and the cardiac MRI showed a regression of the myocardial infiltration and of the pericardial effusion; moreover, the patient's state improved and the peripheral lymph nodes shrank back to a normal size. However, the patient passed away, due to neurological complications 13 months after the diagnosis of lymphoma, without recurrence of cardiac involvement.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1768-3181
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
58
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
117-21
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
[Cardiac extension of a non-Hodgkin lymphoma revealed by an atrial flutter].
pubmed:affiliation
Service de cardiologie, hôpital d'instruction des armées-Laveran, 13, boulevard A.-Laveran, 13998 Marseille-Armées, France. dmioulet@yahoo.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports