Cardiac biopsy with intracardiac echocardiographic guidance for successful diagnosis of cardiac lymphoma

Clin Case Rep. 2018 Jul 9;6(9):1681-1683. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.1699. eCollection 2018 Sep.

Abstract

The diagnosis and appropriate treatment of cardiac lymphoma are often delayed by the difficulty in obtaining heart tissue biopsies. Intracardiac echocardiography-guided biopsy can improve the prognosis of cardiac lymphoma by decreasing postbiopsy complications and increasing biopsy quality, allowing collection of sufficient material for multilateral analysis.

Keywords: cardiac lymphoma; flow cytometric analysis; intracardiac echocardiography‐guided biopsy.

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  • Case Reports