Intra-cardiac Burkitt's lymphoma mimicking acute pulmonary embolism.
Primary cardiac lymphoma is a rare clinical entity with poor prognosis and delayed diagnosis is often due to variable and non-specific clinical presentation. The case of an elderly male is reported with multiple co-morbidities, who had undergone a spinal laminectomy two weeks prior to presentation, later presented to the emergency room (E.R.) with acute chest pain, dyspnea and hypoxemia. A diagnosis of intracardiac thrombus was made, based on the clinical picture and echocardiography findings but per-operatively, he was found to have an extensive, non-resectable cardiac tumor.
Fatimi
Saulat
S
Department of Surgery, Division Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.
Sheikh
Sadaf
S
Shah
Zaman
Z
Shafiq
Majid
M
D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D002051:Burkitt Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D017128:Embolectomy; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000473:pathology