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The development of congestive cardiac failure in a patient with hairy cell leukemia treated with
B Koczwara1, E Spangenthal, S H Bernstein
1Division of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA.
Leukemia & Lymphoma
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
Deoxyadenosines are closely related to adenosine and as such, may interfere with the cardiac adenylate cyclase pathway resulting in cardiac dysfunction. We report a rare case of a 42 year old man who developed transient cardiac failure following treatment with 2-CDA for hairy cell leukemia.