Treatment of a primary cardiac lymphoma with orthotopic heart transplantation

Abstract

We here describe the case of a patient diagnosed with primary lymphoma who underwent orthotopic heart transplantation.Postsurgically, the patient was treated with immunosuppressants and chemotherapy. Three months later, lesions were foundon the right side of the neck and the inferior vena cava; 12 months later, the lesion of the neck became smaller and the lesionof the inferior vena cava was not detected by positron emission tomography/computed tomography. The problems we encountered with this rare disease are discussed and compared to previous studies.