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Successful surgical resection and reconstruction for a huge primary cardiac lymphoma filling the right heart

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Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is rare, with a frequency of 1.0%–1.6% among cardiac malignant tumors. Chemotherapy is often selected as a first‐line treatment for PCL. However, when the tumor causes… Click to show full abstract

Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is rare, with a frequency of 1.0%–1.6% among cardiac malignant tumors. Chemotherapy is often selected as a first‐line treatment for PCL. However, when the tumor causes heart failure or life‐threatening hemodynamic collapse, antecedent urgent surgery is required. We herein report a successful case of complete tumor resection and reconstruction of the right atrium and right ventricle using a bovine pericardial patch combined with tricuspid valve replacement in a patient with a huge PCL filling the right heart that manifested as tricuspid valve stenosis and subsequent heart failure.

Keywords: heart; primary cardiac; right heart; resection reconstruction; filling right; cardiac lymphoma

Journal Title: Journal of Cardiac Surgery
Year Published: 2020

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