title: Primary cardiac lymphoma: echocardiographic characterization and successful resection.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh 15213, USA.
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Sommers
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Edmundowicz
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Hattler
mesh_terms: 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