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ArticleCureus2025

Primary Cardiac Lymphoma Mimicking Cardiac Tumor: A Rare Case of Right Ventricular Mass With Seven-Year Remission.

Vasileios Leivaditis, Athanasios Papatriantafyllou, Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, Manfred Dahm, Vasileios Lozos

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Vasileios LeivaditisDepartment of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfalz-Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, DEU.
Athanasios PapatriantafyllouDepartment of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfalz-Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, DEU.
Ioannis PanagiotopoulosDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Ippokrateio General Hospital, Athens, GRC.
Manfred DahmDepartment of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfalz-Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, DEU.
Vasileios LozosDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Ippokrateio General Hospital, Athens, GRC.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is an exceedingly rare extranodal lymphoma type that typically presents with nonspecific symptoms such as arrhythmias or heart failure. This report details the case of a 67-year-old male with a right ventricular mass, ultimately diagnosed as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the germinal center B-cell (GCB) subtype. Initial chemotherapy with the CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone) regimen was insufficient, necessitating the addition of rituximab and subsequent mycophenolate therapy to manage immune thrombocytopenia. Through prolonged treatment and management of complications, the patient achieved remission and has remained disease-free over a seven-year follow-up period. This case highlights the diagnostic and therapeutic challenges of PCL, especially when associated with immune thrombocytopenia and suspected sternal osteomyelitis, underlining the importance of a multidisciplinary approach.

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cardiopulmonary bypassdiffuse large b-cell lymphomaimmune thrombocytopeniaprimary cardiac lymphomaright ventricular masstumor debulking

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PMID39897216
PMCPMC11787818

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