title: Cardiac involvement in an adolescent with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
abstract: Cardiac complications of the pediatric patients with acute leukemia are common. Most of the cardiac complications may be due to chemotherapeutics such as antracyclins, besides anemia, infections, or direct leukemic infiltrations of the heart. It is reported that leukemic infiltration is frequent in the postmortem examination of the myocardium and pericardium. However, at the antemortem examination, pericardial involvement is rare and there is no myocardial involvement reported at the time of diagnosis in patients with acute leukemia in the English literature. Here, the authors report an adolescent with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who had myocardial infiltration at the time of diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Hematology, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. barismalbora@gmail.com
authors.forename: Baris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Malbora
authors.forename: Emel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ozyurek
authors.forename: Selman Vefa
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Yildirim
authors.forename: Zekai
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Avci
authors.forename: Namik
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ozbek
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017115:Catheter Ablation; D002465:Cell Movement; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D010490:Pericardial Effusion; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D012008:Recurrence; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery