A Case of Cardiac Lymphoma Developed in Right Atrium.
- Author:
Yong Soon WON
1
;
Jin Ho KIM
;
Jong Bum KWEON
;
Kuhn PARK
;
Moon Sub KWACK
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Dae Jon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Heart neoplasm;
Lymphoma
- MeSH:
Aged;
Diagnosis;
Dyspnea;
Heart;
Heart Atria*;
Heart Neoplasms;
Hemorrhage;
Humans;
Lymphoma*;
Mediastinitis;
Sepsis
- From:The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
2000;33(12):971-973
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Primary cardiac lymphoma is an uncommon malignancy, accounting for 1.3% of primary cardiac tumors and 0.5% of extranodal lymphomas. However, secondary involvement of the heart is seen in 8.7-27.2% of the documented clinical cases of lymphoma. A 66-year-old man was referred to us for evaluation of dyspnea. A tumor mass was detected by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiogram in the right atrium. The tumor was surgically resected. The pathologic diagnosis was a malignant lymphoma(diffuse large B cell type) had associated with intracavitary involvement of the right atrium. But acute mediastinitis was developed and then the patient was expired due to sepsis and bleeding at postoperative 9 days.
