Key result
Chemotherapy reversed complete atrioventricular block to first-degree block within 11 days in a patient with cardiac involvement from malignant lymphoma.
Population
83-year-old man with complete atrioventricular (AV) block due to cardiac involvement by a malignant lymphoma
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
11 days
Authors
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Supports potential reversibility of AV block in cardiac lymphoma with chemotherapy; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Chemotherapy can reverse complete AV block caused by cardiac involvement of malignant lymphoma.
Otsuji et al. (1994) studied this question. Chemotherapy reversed complete atrioventricular block to first-degree block within 11 days in a patient with cardiac involvement from malignant lymphoma.
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