Impairment of left ventricular kinetics in lymphogranulomatosis with involvement of lymphatic mediastinal nodes.
Echocardiographic examination of 56 patients with lymphogranulomatosis involving lymphatic mediastinal nodes showed in four cases a paradoxical excursion of the interventricular septum and systolic thickening ("isosceles triange") of the posterior left ventricular wall. Clinico-instrumental examination of the patients made it possible to rule out in these subjects the presence of constrictive pericarditis, which had been formerly considered one of the causes of a disturbance of left ventricular kinetics.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum; D009068:Movement
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents