[Cardiac T cell lymphoma: a case report]

The authors relate an observation taken on a 17 year-old African girl for a pleural and pericardial infusion that has resisted the treatment of tuberculosis with no HIV infection. Subsequent echocardiographies revealed the quick formation of an infiltration process inside the left ventricle. Death occurred before pericardial histopathology indicated a cardiac T tell non-hodgkin malignant lymphoma. In west Africa, this is undoubtedly the first histologically demonstrated case in which HIV and HTLV infections could facilitate the appearance of that exceptional type of cardiac neoplasm.