Successful treatment of primary cardiac lymphoma and pulmonary tumor embolism with chemotherapy.
A 72-year-old man with a large mass in the right atrium and the pulmonary embolism by chest computed tomography was diagnosed as the primary cardiac B-cell lymphoma (PCL) with pulmonary tumor embolism and pericardial effusion. Upon completion of initial chemotherapy, the mass was markedly reduced, and the pulmonary embolism disappeared on magnetic resonance imaging. This rarely diagnosed entity is treatable with chemotherapy for both PCL and pulmonary embolism.
Kosugi
Munenori
M
Ono
Takuya
T
Yamaguchi
Hiroki
H
Sato
Naoki
N
Dan
Kazuo
K
Tanaka
Keiji
K
Takano
Teruo
T
D000368:Aged; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003520:Cyclophosphamide / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology*; D012074:Remission Induction; D014750:Vincristine / Q000627:therapeutic use
D014750:Vincristine; D004317:Doxorubicin; D003520:Cyclophosphamide; D011241:Prednisone