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Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor
Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is a rare neoplasm that involves the heart, pericardium, or both. Patients with PCL have median survival of approximately 7 months. We report a 63-year-old woman with PCL treated with chemoimmunotherapy but relapsed 7 years later. She received automated implantable car...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5174167/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28053792 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7164829 |
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author | Singh, Baljit Ip, Randy Ibrahim Al-Rajjal, Ahmed Kafri, Zyad Al-Katib, Ayad Hadid, Tarik |
author_facet | Singh, Baljit Ip, Randy Ibrahim Al-Rajjal, Ahmed Kafri, Zyad Al-Katib, Ayad Hadid, Tarik |
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description | Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is a rare neoplasm that involves the heart, pericardium, or both. Patients with PCL have median survival of approximately 7 months. We report a 63-year-old woman with PCL treated with chemoimmunotherapy but relapsed 7 years later. She received automated implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) prophylactically shortly after the diagnosis. She presented with a breast recidive 7 years after initial diagnosis and died of relapsed small cell lung cancer. As many patients with PCL die early in the disease course due to life-threatening arrhythmias, preemptive implantation of AICD may improve mortality and prevent early death. Chemoimmunotherapy is effective in inducing remission in patients with PCL. Late and unusual pattern of relapse may be more frequent in patients with PCL and should be explored further. This case presents one of the longest surviving patients with PCL reported in the literature. |
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spelling | pubmed-51741672017-01-04 Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor Singh, Baljit Ip, Randy Ibrahim Al-Rajjal, Ahmed Kafri, Zyad Al-Katib, Ayad Hadid, Tarik Case Rep Cardiol Case Report Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is a rare neoplasm that involves the heart, pericardium, or both. Patients with PCL have median survival of approximately 7 months. We report a 63-year-old woman with PCL treated with chemoimmunotherapy but relapsed 7 years later. She received automated implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) prophylactically shortly after the diagnosis. She presented with a breast recidive 7 years after initial diagnosis and died of relapsed small cell lung cancer. As many patients with PCL die early in the disease course due to life-threatening arrhythmias, preemptive implantation of AICD may improve mortality and prevent early death. Chemoimmunotherapy is effective in inducing remission in patients with PCL. Late and unusual pattern of relapse may be more frequent in patients with PCL and should be explored further. This case presents one of the longest surviving patients with PCL reported in the literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5174167/ /pubmed/28053792 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7164829 Text en Copyright © 2016 Baljit Singh et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Singh, Baljit Ip, Randy Ibrahim Al-Rajjal, Ahmed Kafri, Zyad Al-Katib, Ayad Hadid, Tarik Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor |
title | Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor |
title_full | Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor |
title_fullStr | Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor |
title_full_unstemmed | Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor |
title_short | Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor |
title_sort | primary cardiac lymphoma: lessons learned from a long survivor |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5174167/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28053792 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7164829 |
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