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Published in: Journal of Medical Case Reports 1/2010

Open Access 01-12-2010 | Case report

Hodgkin's lymphoma presenting with heart failure: a case report

Authors: Zeinab Amirimoghaddam, Malihe Khoddami, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri, Somayeh Molaee

Published in: Journal of Medical Case Reports | Issue 1/2010

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Abstract

Introduction

Cardiac involvement in malignant lymphoma is one of the least investigated subjects in oncology. This article reports a case of cardiac involvement in Hodgkin's lymphoma which presented as heart failure.

Case presentation

We report the case of an 8-year-old Afghan girl with Hodgkin's lymphoma. The disease presented with systemic signs and symptoms, including abdominal distension, weakness, pallor, chills, fever, generalized edema, hepatosplenomegaly and generalized lymphadenopathy, as well as signs of heart failure. Test results showed a rare form of heart metastasis.

Conclusion

We report a case of Hodgkin's lymphoma with metastasis to the heart, detected premortem. Although the involvement of the heart in a malignancy is relatively common, premortem detection is unusual and only few studies have reported it in the literature.
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Metadata
Title
Hodgkin's lymphoma presenting with heart failure: a case report
Authors
Zeinab Amirimoghaddam
Malihe Khoddami
Nahid Dehghan Nayeri
Somayeh Molaee
Publication date
01-12-2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Journal of Medical Case Reports / Issue 1/2010
Electronic ISSN: 1752-1947
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-14

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