Urgent drainage followed by early chemotherapy can be lifesaving in cases of acute cardiac tamponade due to peripheral T-cell lymphoma.
Highlights the importance of recognizing peripheral T-cell lymphoma as a rare cause of cardiac tamponade requiring urgent drainage and early chemotherapy.
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Peripheral T-cell lymphoma may rarely manifest with acute cardiac tamponade and multiorgan dissemination. Urgent drainage followed by early chemotherapy-sometimes initiated before histopathologic confirmation-can be lifesaving. Recognition of such patterns may aid timely diagnosis and improve outcomes.
Erol et al. (Mon,) reported a other. Urgent drainage followed by early chemotherapy can be lifesaving in cases of acute cardiac tamponade due to peripheral T-cell lymphoma.