Key result
Intracardiac echocardiography-guided biopsy can improve cardiac lymphoma prognosis by decreasing postbiopsy complications and increasing biopsy quality to yield sufficient diagnostic material.
Why the study?
Does intracardiac echocardiography-guided biopsy improve diagnosis and reduce complications in patients with suspected cardiac lymphoma?
Does intracardiac echocardiography-guided biopsy improve diagnosis and reduce complications in patients with suspected cardiac lymphoma?
Intracardiac echocardiography-guided biopsy is a useful technique for safely obtaining high-quality tissue samples to diagnose cardiac lymphoma.
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May support ICE-guided biopsy for cardiac lymphoma; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before adoption.
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.
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Katagiri et al. (2018) studied this question. Intracardiac echocardiography-guided biopsy can improve cardiac lymphoma prognosis by decreasing postbiopsy complications and increasing biopsy quality to yield sufficient diagnostic material.
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