Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Cardiac Tamponade: Management and Perioperative Imaging

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Classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cHL) is a characterized by a neoplastic growth of lymph nodes. Histologically characterized by Reed-Sternberg cell and clinically presents commonly with painless lymphadenopathy and constitutional symptoms such as fever, chills, weight loss and or night sweats [1]. Uncommonly, this disease can affect extralymphatic organs such as pericardium. In normal healthy adults, approximately 10 to 50 mL of pericardial fluid surrounds the heart. This fluid is an ultrafiltrate from epicardial blood vessels and cushions the heart during systole and diastole. Pericardial effusions are most commonly seen in viral etiologies and occur in 4-6% of patient’s with cHL with pericardial tamponade being exceedingly rare and reported only in case reports [2-6]. Typically, 20% of patient’s at the time of diagnosis have pericardial effusions with 6% being moderate or large [6].

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