Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) – diagnostic difficulties

Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is the very rare disease that is associated with a high mortality rate. A prompt and proper diagnosis may affect the prognosis, and proper treatment may improve life expectancy. This report documents the case of a 74-year-old female with primary cardiac lymphoma. Unfor...

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Autores principales: Skalec, Karolina, Litwin, Linda, Drozdz, Katarzyna, Gac, Pawel, Jazwiec, Przemyslaw, Chabowski, Mariusz, Zymlinski, Robert, Molenda, Wlodzimierz, Szuba, Andrzej, Janczak, Dariusz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26702288
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2015.54468
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author Skalec, Karolina
Litwin, Linda
Drozdz, Katarzyna
Gac, Pawel
Jazwiec, Przemyslaw
Chabowski, Mariusz
Zymlinski, Robert
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Szuba, Andrzej
Janczak, Dariusz
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Drozdz, Katarzyna
Gac, Pawel
Jazwiec, Przemyslaw
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Zymlinski, Robert
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description Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is the very rare disease that is associated with a high mortality rate. A prompt and proper diagnosis may affect the prognosis, and proper treatment may improve life expectancy. This report documents the case of a 74-year-old female with primary cardiac lymphoma. Unfortunately, the patient died from heart failure on her 23(rd) day in hospital.
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spelling pubmed-46319242015-12-23 Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) – diagnostic difficulties Skalec, Karolina Litwin, Linda Drozdz, Katarzyna Gac, Pawel Jazwiec, Przemyslaw Chabowski, Mariusz Zymlinski, Robert Molenda, Wlodzimierz Szuba, Andrzej Janczak, Dariusz Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol Case Report Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is the very rare disease that is associated with a high mortality rate. A prompt and proper diagnosis may affect the prognosis, and proper treatment may improve life expectancy. This report documents the case of a 74-year-old female with primary cardiac lymphoma. Unfortunately, the patient died from heart failure on her 23(rd) day in hospital. Termedia Publishing House 2015-09-28 2015-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4631924/ /pubmed/26702288 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2015.54468 Text en Copyright © 2015 Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (Polskie Towarzystwo KardioTorakochirurgów) and the editors of the Polish Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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Szuba, Andrzej
Janczak, Dariusz
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