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Larry M Bush1, Jose G Urrutia2, Eduardo A Rodriguez2
1Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA University of Miami-Miller School of Medicine, JFK Medical Center, Palm Beach County, FL, USA drlarry561@aol.com.
Abstract:
Despite treatment with potent and effective combination antiretroviral medications, the incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in the population living with HIV/AIDS remains significantly higher than that in noninfected individuals. The majority of the HIV-infected patients with NHL present with advanced stage extranodal disease of the B-cell phenotype. Lymphomas are the second most common tumors involving the heart in HIV-infected patients. Although the heart may serve as the primary focus of the lymphoma, in most HIV-related cases, cardiac lymphomatous involvement is part of a metastatic process that originated elsewhere.
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