Sudden death due to lymphomatous infiltration of the cardiac conduction system

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 77-81

  Ottaviani, Giulia ^a,b   Matturri, Luigi ^a   Rossi, Lino ^a   Jones, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Cardiac lymphoma; Conduction system; Large B cell lymphoma; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; MITOXANTRONE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER INFILTRATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLASTIC LYMPHOMA; LABORATORY TEST; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

EID: 0037353558     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-8807(02)00168-0     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Ottaviani G., Rossi L., Ramos S.G., Matturri L. Pathology of the heart and conduction system in a case of sudden death due to a cardiac fibroma in a 6-month-old child. Cardiovasc Pathol. 8:1999;109-112.
2. Virmani R., Burke A.P., Farb A. Sudden cardiac death. Cardiovasc Pathol. 10:2001;275-282.
3. Burke A., Virmani R. Benign tumors of fibrous tissue. Rosai J., Sobin L. Atlas of tumor pathology. Tumors of the heart and great vessels. 1996;69-78 Armed Force Institute, Washington (DC). 3rd series, Fascicle 16.
4. Fava C., Ghidoni P., Broich G., Matturri L. Cardiac malignant lymphoma: a case report. Anticancer Res. 18:1998;1291-1294.
5. Matturri L., Ottaviani G., Ramos S.G., Rossi L. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS): a study of cardiac conduction system. Cardiovasc Pathol. 9:2000;137-145.
6. Rossi L., Matturri L. Clinicopathological approach to cardiac arrhythmias. 1990;Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milan (Italy).
7. Jones D., Amin M., Ordonez N.G., Glassman A.B., Hayes K.J., Medeiros L.J. Reticulum cell sarcoma of lymph node with mixed dendritic and fibroblastic features. Mod Pathol. 14:2001;1059-1067.
8. Vasef M.A., Kamel O.W., Chen Y.Y., Medeiros L.J., Weiss L.M. Detection of Epstein-Barr virus in multiple sites involved by Hodgkin's disease. Am J Pathol. 147:1995;1408-1415.
9. Lennert K., Feller A.C. Histopathology of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. 1992;196-210 Springer-Verlag, New York.
10. Ito M., Nakagawa A., Tsuzuki T., Yokoi T., Yamashita Y., Asai J. Primary cardiac lymphoma. No evidence for an etiologic association with Epstein-Barr virus. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 120:1996;555-559.
11. Smith C. Tumors of the heart. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 110:1986;371-374.
12. Lam K.Y., Dickens P., Chan A.C. Tumors of the heart. A 20-year experience with a review of 12,485 consecutive autopsies. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 117:1993;1027-1031.
13. Zettl A., Lee S.S., Rudiger T., Starostik P., Marino M., Kirchner T., Ott M., Muller-Hermelink H.K., Otto G. Epstein-Barr virus-associated B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders in angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma and peripheral T-cell lymphoma, unspecified. Am J Clin Pathol. 117:2002;368-379.
14. D'Amore F., Johansen P., Houmand A., Weisenburger D.D., Mortensen L.S. Epstein-Barr virus genome in non-Hodgkin's lymphomas occurring in immunocompetent patients: highest prevalence in nonlymphoblastic T-cell lymphoma and correlation with a poor prognosis. Danish Lymphoma Study Group, LYFO. Blood. 87:1996;1045-1055.
15. Swerdlow A.J., Higgins C.D., Hunt B.J., Thomas J.A., Burke M.M., Crawford D.H., Yacoub M.H. Risk of lymphoid neoplasia after cardiothoracic transplantation. a cohort study of the relation to Epstein-Barr virus. Transplantation. 69:2000;897-904.
16. Mattila P.S., Aalto S.M., Heikkila L., Mattila S., Nieminen M., Auvinen E., Hedman K., Takkanen J. Malignancies after heart transplantation: presence of Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus. Clin Transplant. 15:2001;337-342.
17. Dickens P., Poon C.S., Wat M.S. Sudden death associated with solitary intracavitary right atrial metastatic tumour deposit. Forensic Sci Int. 57:1992;169-173.
18. Roberts W.C., Glancy D.L., DeVita V.T. Heart in malignant lymphoma (Hodgkin's disease, lymphosarcoma, reticulum cell sarcoma and mycosis fungoides). A study of 196 autopsy cases. Am J Cardiol. 22:1968;85-107.
19. Otsuji Y., Arima N., Fujiwara H., Saito K., Kisanuki A., Tanaka H. Reversible complete atrioventricular block due to malignant lymphoma. Eur Heart J. 15:1994;407-408.
20. Allen D.C., Alderdice J.M., Morton P., Mollan P.A., Morris T.C. Pathology of the heart and conduction system in lymphoma and leukaemia. J Clin Pathol. 40:1987;746-750.