Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor
Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is a rare neoplasm that involves the heart, pericardium, or both. Patients with PCL have median survival of approximately 7 months. We report a 63-year-old woman with PCL treated with chemoimmunotherapy but relapsed 7 years later. She received automated implantable car...
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| description | Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is a rare neoplasm that involves the heart, pericardium, or both. Patients with PCL have median survival of approximately 7 months. We report a 63-year-old woman with PCL treated with chemoimmunotherapy but relapsed 7 years later. She received automated implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) prophylactically shortly after the diagnosis. She presented with a breast recidive 7 years after initial diagnosis and died of relapsed small cell lung cancer. As many patients with PCL die early in the disease course due to life-threatening arrhythmias, preemptive implantation of AICD may improve mortality and prevent early death. Chemoimmunotherapy is effective in inducing remission in patients with PCL. Late and unusual pattern of relapse may be more frequent in patients with PCL and should be explored further. This case presents one of the longest surviving patients with PCL reported in the literature. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7c1ee2a908fa406aba2a2555868cbbab2025-08-20T03:35:44ZengWileyCase Reports in Cardiology2090-64042090-64122016-01-01201610.1155/2016/71648297164829Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long SurvivorBaljit Singh0Randy Ip1Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Rajjal2Zyad Kafri3Ayad Al-Katib4Tarik Hadid5Graduate Medical Education, St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USAGraduate Medical Education, St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Detroit, MI, USAGraduate Medical Education, St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USAVan Elslander Cancer Center, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, USAVan Elslander Cancer Center, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, USAVan Elslander Cancer Center, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, USAPrimary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is a rare neoplasm that involves the heart, pericardium, or both. Patients with PCL have median survival of approximately 7 months. We report a 63-year-old woman with PCL treated with chemoimmunotherapy but relapsed 7 years later. She received automated implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) prophylactically shortly after the diagnosis. She presented with a breast recidive 7 years after initial diagnosis and died of relapsed small cell lung cancer. As many patients with PCL die early in the disease course due to life-threatening arrhythmias, preemptive implantation of AICD may improve mortality and prevent early death. Chemoimmunotherapy is effective in inducing remission in patients with PCL. Late and unusual pattern of relapse may be more frequent in patients with PCL and should be explored further. This case presents one of the longest surviving patients with PCL reported in the literature.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7164829 |
| spellingShingle | Baljit Singh Randy Ip Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Rajjal Zyad Kafri Ayad Al-Katib Tarik Hadid Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor Case Reports in Cardiology |
| title | Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor |
| title_full | Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor |
| title_fullStr | Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor |
| title_full_unstemmed | Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor |
| title_short | Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Lessons Learned from a Long Survivor |
| title_sort | primary cardiac lymphoma lessons learned from a long survivor |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7164829 |
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