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Left Atrial Primary B Cell Lymphoma Presenting with Mitral Regurgitation
Author(s) -
Sharma Akshay,
Minhas Harpreet Singh,
Sakhuja Puja,
Satsangi Deepak Kumar
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2011.01416.x
Subject(s) - medicine , mitral regurgitation , lymphoma , histopathology , left atrium , cardiology , mitral valve , chest pain , cd20 , radiology , pathology , atrial fibrillation
A bstract Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is an extremely rare diagnosis. We present a case of a 38‐year‐old immunocompetent female who presented with dyspnea on exertion and chest pain and the echocardiography revealed a mass in the left atrium (LA) causing moderate mitral regurgitation and mimicking a left atrial myxoma. The patient was managed with excision of the mass and mitral valve replacement followed by chemotherapy. The histopathology revealed B‐cell non‐Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) with tumor cells showing immunoreactivity with CD20 and negative for CD45RO. (J Card Surg 2012;27:300‐303)