A case of malignant lymphoma with diastolic heart failure.
In patients with malignant lymphoma, the first signs and symptoms are frequently noncardiac and clinical manifestations of cardiac involvement are often nonspecific. This case report presents a patient with malignant lymphoma whose first manifestation was characteristic of heart failure, mainly due to diastolic dysfunction, and whose postmortem examination revealed massive myocardial invasion.
Toko
H
H
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan.
Terasaki
F
F
Kawakami
Y
Y
Hayashi
T
T
Suwa
M
M
Hirota
Y
Y
Kitaura
Y
Y
Kawamura
K
K
Takesako
T
T
Maeda
T
T
Mori
H
H
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D016399:Lymphoma, T-Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D018754:Ventricular Dysfunction / Q000503:physiopathology