Right heart obstruction due to intracavitary prolymphocytic leukemia.
A 52-year-old woman with prolymphocytic leukemia in whom right heart failure developed from leukemic infiltration of the heart with right ventricular outflow tract obstruction is described. Two-dimensional echocardiography helped guide successful treatment of this complication with radiation and chemotherapy.
Perry
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McCormick
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Veasey
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Cohen
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D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged