| LETTER TO THE EDITOR |
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| Year : 2023 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 95-98 |
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Concerns of non-hodgkin's lymphoma in open-heart surgery for rheumatic heart disease: A case report and review of literature
Anish Gupta1, Anshuman Darbari1, Uttam Kumar Nath2, RS Abisho1
1 Department of CTVS, AIIMS, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
2 Department of Medical Oncology and Haematology, AIIMS, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
Correspondence Address:
Anish Gupta
Department of CTVS, AIIMS, Rishikesh - 249 203, Uttarakhand
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jpcs.jpcs_79_22
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There are concerns regarding safe conduct of open-heart surgery in a patient with hematological malignancy, both in intraoperative and postoperative management of the patient. There is a paucity of literature regarding this problem and limited data have been published regarding the conduct of coronary artery bypass surgery on pump in a patient with hematological malignancies. We describe our experience in a patient with rheumatic heart disease with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma requiring mitral valve replacement.
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