Primary cardiac lymphoma: echocardiographic characterization and successful resection.
We present a case of primary cardiac lymphoma in a patient with dyspnea and hypoxemia. Transesophageal echocardiography reveals a large right atrial mass and an atrial septal aneurysm with right-to-left shunting through a patent foramen ovale. The patient underwent resection and atrial reconstruction. Pathology was a B cell lymphoma with diffuse large cell histology. There was no evidence of extracardiac involvement, and the patient is well 3 months postoperatively with a normal transthoracic echocardiogram.
Sommers
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Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh 15213, USA.
Edmundowicz
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Katz
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Hattler
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D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged