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Considerations on the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Primary Cardiac Lymphoma

Thalisson Gonçalves Almeida et al. Tales Gabriel Ferro de Oliveira Gustavo da Silva Soares Pedro Pereira Tenório

Dear Editor,

We would like to congratulate the authors on their relevant case report, “Cardiac Lymphoma: A Case Report,” published in the Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia (ABC Cardiol). The article addresses a rare and challenging clinical condition, primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL), which, as highlighted in the article, is an aggressive tumor with a poor prognosis and nonspecific symptoms, making early diagnosis difficult. Among the article’s strengths, we highlight the rarity of the case, as it is a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) with primary cardiac involvement, given the low incidence of these tumors (approximately 0.04% of primary malignant cardiac tumors, with lymphomas representing about 1.3% of these), with DLBCL being the most common subtype, frequently located in the right chambers of the heart.^,

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