Primary Cardiac B-Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Disguised as a Pacemaker Endocarditis

Background  Pacemaker infections rates are high compared with the incidence of primary malignant cardiac tumors. However, they can look alike in diagnostics and patient presentation. Case Description  We hereby report a rare case of a suspected pacemaker endocarditis which in fact turned out to be a...

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Autores principales: Fleißner, Felix, Molitoris, Ulrich, Rösler, Wiebke, Kühn, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2018
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6023713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29977733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1660807
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author Fleißner, Felix
Molitoris, Ulrich
Rösler, Wiebke
Kühn, Christian
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description Background  Pacemaker infections rates are high compared with the incidence of primary malignant cardiac tumors. However, they can look alike in diagnostics and patient presentation. Case Description  We hereby report a rare case of a suspected pacemaker endocarditis which in fact turned out to be a primary cardiac B cell lymphoma. The lymphoma was removed surgically. Conclusion  Sometimes we encounter the unexpected. Suboptimal preoperative diagnostics certainly lead to the faulty conclusion of an endocarditis. Nonetheless, even such an enhanced primary cardiac tumor can be resected with good clinical outcome and long-term survival.
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spelling pubmed-60237132018-07-05 Primary Cardiac B-Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Disguised as a Pacemaker Endocarditis Fleißner, Felix Molitoris, Ulrich Rösler, Wiebke Kühn, Christian Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Rep Background  Pacemaker infections rates are high compared with the incidence of primary malignant cardiac tumors. However, they can look alike in diagnostics and patient presentation. Case Description  We hereby report a rare case of a suspected pacemaker endocarditis which in fact turned out to be a primary cardiac B cell lymphoma. The lymphoma was removed surgically. Conclusion  Sometimes we encounter the unexpected. Suboptimal preoperative diagnostics certainly lead to the faulty conclusion of an endocarditis. Nonetheless, even such an enhanced primary cardiac tumor can be resected with good clinical outcome and long-term survival. Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2018-01 2018-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6023713/ /pubmed/29977733 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1660807 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Primary Cardiac B-Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Disguised as a Pacemaker Endocarditis
title_sort primary cardiac b-non-hodgkin lymphoma disguised as a pacemaker endocarditis
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6023713/
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