Malignant Lymphoma of the Heart In Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Successful treatment of a patient with cardiac lymphoma who presented with a complete atrioventricular block

“…More common presenting symptoms associated with malignant tumors of the heart are congestive heart failure, pericardial effusion, and a superior vena cava obstruction [1,5,7,24]. There have been five reported cases demonstrating a complete A-V block in primary cardiac lymphoma [4,6,10,20,25]. Regarding the mechanism of A-V block, it has been described that lymphoma cells infiltrate the myocardium and then eventually damage the conduction system leading to a complete heart block [10,20,25].…”

“…There have been five reported cases demonstrating a complete A-V block in primary cardiac lymphoma [4,6,10,20,25]. Regarding the mechanism of A-V block, it has been described that lymphoma cells infiltrate the myocardium and then eventually damage the conduction system leading to a complete heart block [10,20,25]. Two patients with primary cardiac lymphoma demonstrating an A-V block were reported to still be alive [4,6].…”

Comportamiento clínico de los tumores cardíacos desde el feto hasta el adulto: serie multicéntrica de 38 pacientes

“…En niños se describen neuroblastomas y en adultos carcinomas y melanomas. La incidencia de linfomas cardíacos ha ido aumentando en el último tiempo, asociado al síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida [34][35][36] . En esta serie se observaron 2 niños y seis adultos con tumores malignos secundarios, con 15% y 24%, respectivamente.…”

Prevalence of Echocardiographic Abnormalities in Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 Infection

“…Involve ment of the heart with typical opportunistic infections [1-3], Kaposi's sarcoma [4,5], or malignant lymphoma [6][7][8] has been described in individual cases as well as dilated cardiomyopathy or left ventricular dysfunction both in children [9,10] and in adults [11][12][13][14][15][16]. On the other hand, abnormal cardiac findings were reported in 16-55% of deceased AIDS patients in large-scale post mortem studies [17][18][19], Besides pericarditis and maran tic endocarditis, myocarditis could be frequently demon strated in histological sections.…”

“…Besides a secondary involvement of the heart in the context of the frequently extranodal and highly ag gressive non-Hodgkin's lymphomas in AIDS [6], primary cardiac lymphomas have also been described [7,8,34], Pathological échocardiographie findings have been frequently shown in patients with P. carinii pneumonia [14,24], On the other hand, this type of pneumonia is the most frequent opportunistic infection in patients with AIDS, and its occurrence at least once must be reck oned with in 65-80% of HIV-1-infected patients [35]. As a constitutional characteristic of the clinical stage WR6, an independent risk factor for cardiac manifestations of the HIV-1 infection, an increased prevalence of patho logical échocardiographie findings could be substan tiated within clinical stages WR5 and WR6 for patients with T4 lymphocyte counts < 100/pl (table 4).…”