Successful treatment of primary cardiac B-cell lymphoma: Depiction at multislice computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging

A rare cause of constrictive pericarditis: Primary cardiac lymphoma

“…Antemortem diagnosis of primary cardiac lymphoma has been reported world-wide. [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Its clinical presentation can be quite variable ranging from heart failure, superior vena caval syndrome, constitutional symptoms, chest pain, arrhythmia, heart block and symptoms related to pericardial effusion/tamponade.…”

“…Definitive diagnosis is obtained by histological examination of endomyocardial/ pericardial biopsies or cytological examination of pericardial fluid. The treatment of choice is combination chemotherapy and early treatment may alter the clinical course [4][5][6] although the overall prognosis is poor.…”

Multimodality cardiac imaging for the noninvasive characterization of intracardiac neoplasms

“…Whereas a benign intramyocardial mass such as a cardiac lipoma can be easily characterized using fat saturated CMR pulses sequences [5], malignant lesions such as cardiac lymphomas and angiosarcomas, as in our case, will have characteristic signal intensities on T1 and T2 weighted imaging [6]. The combination of this information using noninvasive cardiovascular imaging is valuable to the surgeon in terms of operative risk, procedure planning, and aggressiveness of resection.…”

The diagnosis of primary cardiac lymphoma by right heart catheterization and biopsy using fluoroscopic and transthoracic echocardiographic guidance

“…While echocardiography is usually the first diagnostic modality, CT and MRI allow simultaneous visualization of the heart and adjacent structures, thus helping to evaluate the extent of the cardiac mass. Furthermore, CT density and MR signal intensity characteristics may add information useful for the differential diagnosis of cardiac tumors [3].…”