刊名:Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
出版年:2007
出版时间:November 2007
年:2007
卷:20
期:11
页码:1319.e1-1319.e2
全文大小:216 K
文摘
We present a case of a 51-year-old man with a history of bone-marrow transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukemia who returned 4 months later with cardiac tamponade. An echocardiogram showed a solid mass encasing the right ventricle (RV). Surgical biopsy of the mass revealed early relapse with lymphoblasts derived from B-cell precursors. We believe that this is the first description of relapsing B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting as an intrathoracic mass with direct invasion of the adjacent cardiac structures causing tamponade physiology.