title: Cardiac involvement in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: with and without HIV infection.
abstract: AIDS has resulted in a significant increase in the incidence of both primary and secondary cardiac lymphomas. Prognosis of HIV associate cardiac non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is poor with very limited survival. Many cases of cardiac involvement in lymphoma remain undetected secondary to non-specific symptoms. Chemotherapy may produce remission in some cases. We report two cases of cardiac involvement with B-cell lymphoma. The first patient had a history of AIDS while the second had no evidence of HIV infection.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC 27858, USA. khann@mail.ecu.edu
authors.forename: Nazim Uddin Azam
authors.initials: NU
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: Sagir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: Richard Lee
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Rumley
authors.forename: Assad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Movahed
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D018023:HIV Seronegativity; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D016483:Lymphoma, AIDS-Related / Q000473:pathology*; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis