Ventricular tachycardia reveals cardiac infiltration due to mediastinal lymphoma

Europace. 2010 Sep;12(9):1344-5. doi: 10.1093/europace/euq124. Epub 2010 May 19.

Abstract

A 61-year-old man was referred to us for palpitations and ventricular tachycardia. After being treated by chemotherapy for a mediastinum lymphoplasmocytic lymphoma, a ventricular tachycardia (VT) occurred. It was well tolerated. Several imaging techniques showed that this VT was related to a tumoural infiltration of the anterior part of the right ventricle by the lymphoma. Ventricular arrhythmias were controlled under antiarrhythmic drugs and chemotherapy was continued, with close cardiac follow-up. Complete remission was reached with restoration of a normal right ventricular function and resolution of the ventricular arrhythmias.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bundle-Branch Block / etiology
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heart Ventricles / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • Recurrence
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / diagnosis
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / etiology
  • Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia / drug therapy
  • Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia / pathology*