Cardiac biopsy with intracardiac echocardiographic guidance for successful diagnosis of cardiac lymphoma.
Seiichiro KatagiriDaigo AkahaneTamiko SuguroNahoko FuruyaHiroaki FujimotoTetsushi SaitoJun YamashitaNaoya NakamuraKazuma OhyashikiPublished in: Clinical case reports (2018)
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.