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Atrial fibrillation following chemotherapy for stage IIIE diffuse large B-cell gastric lymphoma in a patient with myotonic dystrophy (Steinert’s disease)

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The authors describe the unusual association between diffuse B-cell gastric lymphoma and myotonic dystrophy, the most common form of adult muscular dystrophy, and sudden atrial fibrillation following one cycle of doxorubicin-based chemotherapy in the same patient. Atrial fibrillation or other cardiac arrhythmias are unusual complications in patients treated with chemotherapy. The cardiac toxicity intrinsically associated with the aggressive chemotherapy employed could function as a triggering factor for the arrhythmia in the predisposed myocardium of this patient.

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  1. Medical Oncology Department, “S.Giovanni di Dio” Hospital, Frattaminore, Naples, Italy

    Liliana Montella, Raffaele Addeo, Raffaele Costanzo, Vincenzo Faiola & Salvatore Del Prete

  2. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

    Michele Caraglia & Alberto Abbruzzese

  3. via S.Giuseppe 12 D, 80034, Marigliano, Naples, Italy

    Liliana Montella

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Montella, L., Caraglia, M., Addeo, R. et al. Atrial fibrillation following chemotherapy for stage IIIE diffuse large B-cell gastric lymphoma in a patient with myotonic dystrophy (Steinert’s disease). Ann Hematol 84, 192–193 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-004-0867-6

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