Primary Cardiac T-Cell Lymphoma Localized in the Mitral Valve.
case_report · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 27211945.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.08.091.
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Abstract
Primary cardiac lymphoma is a rare cardiac tumor, and usually originates from B cells and involves the right side of the heart. We present an extremely rare case of primary cardiac T-cell lymphoma involving the mitral valve alone. A 58-year-old woman who was positive for human T-cell leukemia virus 1 underwent mitral valve replacement because of severe mitral regurgitation. The postoperative pathologic diagnosis of the mitral valve was T-cell lymphoma. Further evaluation revealed no malignancy, except for the mitral valve. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of primary cardiac T-cell lymphoma localized in the mitral valve.
Medical subject headings
- Heart Neoplasms
- Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell
- Mitral Valve