scholarly journals A Life-Threatening Presentation of Primary Small Cell Colorectal Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma as Cardiac Tamponade and Its Challenging Management

Author(s):  
Amr Elkammash ◽  
Mohamed Ayman Abdel-Hay ◽  
Saleh Kanaan ◽  
Mustafa Alsinan ◽  
Yosra Taha ◽  
...  

Colorectal NHL is quite aggressive and rare, forming only less than 1% of all cases of colorectal cancer. The pericardium is an extremely rare first site of metastasis. Cardiac tamponade can be a life-threatening initial presentation. We report a 55-year-old lady who presented with severe shortness of breath, intermittent abdominal pain and altered bowel habits. She had low blood pressure with congested neck veins. Her echocardiogram showed pericardial and cardiac infiltration with tumour mass; a large pericardial effusion with signs of cardiac tamponade. There was no safe window for percutaneous drainage, and the patient was not physically fit for surgical drainage. A multidisciplinary approach was used to diagnose and manage the case involving a cardiologist, gastroenterologist, pathologist, radiologist and oncologist. CT scans of the whole body showed a large rectosigmoid mass infiltrating the uterus and adnexa. Flexible sigmoidoscopy showed a large bleeding mass at the rectosigmoid junction. The biopsy confirmed small cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Urgent three cycles of chemotherapy were commenced over a period of 5 weeks ( one cycle of CVP; two cycles of CHOP). The patient showed significant symptomatic improvement. A five-week follow-up echocardiogram showed that the d pericardial tumour had disappeared and only a small rim of pericardial effusion. Effusion did not recollect in her follow-up echocardiography. A year later, she was referred to the palliative care team due to the further spreading of her lymphoma. In conclusion, colorectal small cell NHL might initially present as cardiac tamponade. Urgent initiation of chemotherapy can be a treatment option whenever a drainage procedure is unsafe.

Blood ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 114 (22) ◽  
pp. 3945-3945
Author(s):  
Matteo Pelosini ◽  
Flavio Baronti ◽  
Francesco Caracciolo ◽  
Sara Galimberti ◽  
Edoardo Benedetti ◽  
...  

Abstract Abstract 3945 Poster Board III-881 Introduction Non Hodgkin Lymphoma could be clinically divided as low grade/indolent NHL (LG NHL) and high grade/aggressive NHL (HG NHL). These diseases are chemo and radio-sensitive and improvements have been achieved by immunotherapeutic approaches. However some patients will relapse and a follow up strategy has to be planned in order to detect and treat them. Several aspects should be considered in planning a follow up including safety, specificity, sensitivity, costs and impact on the patient's psychology: an optimal follow up should mediate between these ones. The more diffuse follow up have been planned years before the introduction of innovative methods and imaging techniques, suggesting the opportunity to revise these programs. Methods We collected data about 418 NHL patients -both low and high grade- treated at our institution from 1990 to 2005 who achieved a complete remission according to Cheson criteria and who entered a follow up program which schedule is planned for 5 years divided in two periods: first two years evaluation every 3 months and in the following three years every sixth month. At each visit physical examinations, blood testing (blood count, chemistry) are performed; for imaging techniques we alternate a whole body CT scans to ultrasounds and chest X-ray coupled. Analyzing time to relapse (TTR), we tried to optimize our follow up schedule trough a computation application known as multi-objective analysis. The first step of this method has been to choose and try to quantify the costs of a follow up which reflect its effectiveness. We considered as costs the expected time between relapse and its detection (Ca) and the expected number of performed examinations before failure or censoring occurs (Cb). The total follow up costs could be summarized in a vector Cref: (Ca,Cb). After doing that we described survival analysis, relapse rate and their onset time in order to be suitable for the informatic analysis. We used a log logistic parametric model to do that. Next we shaped our ideal follow up as a structure based one, which is currently the most used in medical practice: a first period where examinations are more tightly spaced, followed by a second period where they are performed further apart. We describe such follow-up schedule “S” as (d1, k, d2) : d1 is the time between the first k examinations; d2 is the time between the remaining examinations. Applying the log-logistic model we calculated the Cref and schedule for our follow up: Cref was (Ca,Cb)=(8.5,6.2); this means that, on average, every patient entering the follow-up will perform 6.2 examinations, and among those who incur in a relapse, the relapse will be detected 8.5 units of time (eg. weeks) after its onset. The follow up structure was (13,8,26). We then calculated all the possible combination of (d1, k, d2) values from 1 to d1 = 25, k= 24 and d2 = 60. Results 360000 follow up schedules had been detected after searching all the possible combinations for d1, k and d2. For each one Ca e Cb costs have been calculated and than compared by multi-objective analysis to those of the current schedule, We look for both follow up structured and “free” follow up, where “free” means that intervals between examination is continuously variable. When comparing follow-up schedules, we apply the rule of Pareto-dominance: the schedule S1 is superior to the S2 schedule if and only if the cost values for S1 are both lower than the cost values for S2. The method then takes into account only those schedules which improve the current one, with respect to both the Ca and the Cb costs. After multi-objective analysis six follow up were detected. These were as following: (16,10,22), (15,8,20), (15,6,19), (16,8,19), (16,5,18), (16,4,18) and are shown in Fig. 1. Conclusions no differences in follow up schedules emerged when we considered separately LG and HG lymphoma patients. Maximum improving of our follow was just 4% and all the new schedules had wide time frequency visit in the first period and a narrow one in the second period: this was a consequence of the higher relapse distribution in the first period and this follow up organization lead to a lower total number of visit without risk of lose any relapse. This is the first application of this analysis to hematological patients confirming the validity of a follow up schedule should be shaped in two different period. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Blood ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 118 (21) ◽  
pp. 3719-3719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew D McQuillan ◽  
William BG Macdonald ◽  
Michael F Leahy ◽  
J Harvey Turner

Abstract Abstract 3719 Introduction: Radio-immunotherapy (RIT) with 131I-rituximab has demonstrated efficacy in relapsed and refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). 131I-tositumomab has been shown to be an effective first-line agent in follicular NHL with durable response. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of first-line 131I-rituximab RIT and the duration of response in previously untreated patients with follicular NHL, given that this radiolabeled chimeric antibody treatment can be repeated upon relapse. Methods: Fifty consecutive patients with newly diagnosed, symptomatic, advanced follicular NHL received a prescribed therapy activity of 131I-rituximab predicated upon a fixed, whole-body radiation dose of 0.75 Gy. All patients were treated as outpatients. All patients received a standard four-week course of rituximab at a dose of 375 mg/m2 in conjunction with the radionuclide therapy, and subsequent rituximab maintenance at 3-monthly intervals for one year. Response was determined by 18F-FDG PET/CT scans at baseline, and at 3 and 12 months post-treatment. Results: Overall response rate (ORR) at 3 months was 98%, with complete response (CR) seen in 38 patients (76%) and partial response (PR) in 11 patients (22%). Four patients (36%) assessed as having PR at 3 months converted to CR in the year following treatment, so that 84% of patients were in CR at one year. During median follow-up of 33 months (range 12–61 months) only one patient (2.6%) among those who had achieved CR has relapsed, while progressive disease has been seen in seven patients (64%) of those with PR at first post-treatment assessment. Only three of the seven patients with PD have so far required further treatment; one with local radiotherapy and two who have received combination chemotherapy. Median progression-free survival (PFS) has not yet been reached. Toxicity was limited to hematological Grade 4 neutropenia in 5 patients (10%) and thrombocytopenia in 5 patients (10%). One patient received a single platelet transfusion. There were no episodes of bleeding or infection. Three patients have died; one from transformed, aggressive NHL (the only non-responder) and the other two from non-hematological malignancies not apparent at study entry. Conclusion: First-line 131I-rituximab RIT of advanced follicular NHL is effective and safe. Early response rates are similar to those observed with combination chemotherapy and rituximab regimens. Durable CR is present in 82% of patients over a median follow-up of 33 months and median PFS has not yet been reached. Of those with documented PR at 3 months, approximately one-third subsequently converted to CR, while the remaining two-thirds developed PD. Disclosures: Off Label Use: radiolabelled rituximab.


2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 030006052097309
Author(s):  
Ying-shuo Huang ◽  
Jian-xiong Zhang ◽  
Ying Sun

Chronic massive pericardial effusion without cardiac tamponade is relatively rare. Nearly half of all patients with chronic large pericardial effusion are asymptomatic. We report a case of a 77-year-old man who presented with an asymptomatic chronic massive pericardial effusion, with no evidence of cardiac tamponade or pericardial constriction during a 10-year follow-up. The patient had a complex history of lymph node tuberculosis, hypertension, hypothyroidism, and polycythemia vera, as well as high-dose 31P radiation exposure 45 years ago. There was no evidence of tuberculosis infection, hypothyroidism, malignant tumor, severe heart failure, uremia, trauma, severe bacterial or fungal infection, chronic myeloid leukemia, or bone marrow fibrosis after admission. The patient underwent pericardiocentesis twice. The pericardial effusion comprised exudate fluid with a high proportion of monocytes. The patient refused indwelling catheter drainage or pericardiectomy. The likely final diagnosis was recurrent chronic large idiopathic pericardial effusion.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M-C-T Murdila ◽  
B Zamfirescu ◽  
A C Popescu

Abstract We report the case of a 69 years old woman, ex-smoker, with a history of hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes and right leg partial amputation after childhood osteomyelitis, presented at the emergency department for dyspnoea, posterior thoracic pain and progressive distention of the abdomen. She was tachycardic, slightly hypoxemic but normotensive. Electrocardiography: sinus tachycardia, normal axis, diffuse microvoltage and electric alternans. Chest X-ray showed enlarged cardiac silouhette, bilateral pleural effusion and upper right pulmonary lobe consolidation. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed large pericardial effusion, swinging heart, right atrial and right ventricular colapse, significant respiratory variation of transmitral and transtricuspidian flow, dilated inferior vena cava without respiratory variation, all suggesting cardiac tamponade. Computed tomography showed a mediastinal and pulmonary mass in the upper right pulmonary lobe, invading the posterior right thoracic wall and multiple mediastinal voluminous lymphadenopaty and ascites. She became hypotensive and was transferred to a tertiary hospital for urgent drainage of pericardial effusion. Over 1200 mL of serohematic fluid was evacuated with the removal of the drainage catheter in the following 48 hours. A biopsy was performed through bronchoscopy and small cell carcinoma of the lung was diagnosed. Considering the advanced stage of the carcinoma the option of pallative treatment was pursued. Discussions Chronic accumulation of large amounts of pericardial fluid is well tolerated, especially in patients that have limited physical activity. Ecocardiography allows early detection of cardiac tamponade. Development of cardiac tamponade in the evolution of malignancy confers a poor prognosis. The particularity of the case Cardiac tamponade as initial manifestation of lung cancer is a very rare occurrence and only limited data exist in literature. Conclusion Simultaneous presence of ascites, pleural and pericardial effusion should rise the suspicion of malignancy. Abstract P646 Figure.


MedPharmRes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Truc Phan ◽  
Tram Huynh ◽  
Tuan Q. Tran ◽  
Dung Co ◽  
Khoi M. Tran

Introduction: Little information is available on the outcomes of R-CHOP (rituximab with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone) and R-CVP (rituximab with cyclophosphamide, vincristine and prednisone) in treatment of the elderly patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), especially in Vietnam. Material and methods: All patients were newly diagnosed with CD20-positive non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) at Blood Transfusion and Hematology Hospital, Ho Chi Minh city (BTH) between 01/2013 and 01/2018 who were age 60 years or older at diagnosis. A retrospective analysis of these patients was perfomed. Results: Twenty-one Vietnamese patients (6 males and 15 females) were identified and the median age was 68.9 (range 60-80). Most of patients have comorbidities and intermediate-risk. The most common sign was lymphadenopathy (over 95%). The proportion of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) was highest (71%). The percentage of patients reaching complete response (CR) after six cycle of chemotherapy was 76.2%. The median follow-up was 26 months, event-free survival (EFS) was 60% and overall survival (OS) was 75%. Adverse effects of rituximab were unremarkable, treatment-related mortality accounted for less than 10%. There was no difference in drug toxicity between two regimens. Conclusions: R-CHOP, R-CVP yielded a good result and acceptable toxicity in treatment of elderly patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In patients with known cardiac history, omission of anthracyclines is reasonable and R-CVP provides a competitive complete response rate.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Bergqvist ◽  
François Hemery ◽  
Arnaud Jannic ◽  
Salah Ferkal ◽  
Pierre Wolkenstein

AbstractNeurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is an inherited, autosomal-dominant, tumor predisposition syndrome with a birth incidence as high as 1:2000. A patient with NF1 is four to five times more likely to develop a malignancy as compared to the general population. The number of epidemiologic studies on lymphoproliferative malignancies in patients with NF1 is limited. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence rate of lymphoproliferative malignancies (lymphoma and leukemia) in NF1 patients followed in our referral center for neurofibromatoses. We used the Informatics for Integrated Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) platform to extract information from the hospital’s electronic health records. We performed a keyword search on clinical notes generated between Jan/01/2014 and May/11/2020 for patients aged 18 years or older. A total of 1507 patients with confirmed NF1 patients aged 18 years and above were identified (mean age 39.2 years; 57% women). The total number of person-years in follow-up was 57,736 (men, 24,327 years; women, 33,409 years). Mean length of follow-up was 38.3 years (median, 36 years). A total of 13 patients had a medical history of either lymphoma or leukemia, yielding an overall incidence rate of 22.5 per 100,000 (0.000225, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.000223–0.000227). This incidence is similar to that of the general population in France (standardized incidence ratio 1.07, 95% CI 0.60–1.79). Four patients had a medical history leukemia and 9 patients had a medical history of lymphoma of which 7 had non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and 2 had Hodgkin lymphoma. Our results show that adults with NF1 do not have an increased tendency to develop lymphoproliferative malignancies, in contrast to the general increased risk of malignancy. While our results are consistent with the recent population-based study in Finland, they are in contrast with the larger population-based study in England whereby NF1 individuals were found to be 3 times more likely to develop both non-Hodgkin lymphoma and lymphocytic leukemia. Large-scale epidemiological studies based on nationwide data sets are thus needed to confirm our findings.


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyal Meir ◽  
Chovav Handler ◽  
Uri Kaplan ◽  
Doron Kopelman ◽  
Ossama A. Hatoum

Abstract Introduction Primary lymphoma of the colon is exceedingly rare and comprises 0.2–1% of all colon tumors. The most common subtype of lymphoma in the colon is non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Symptoms are often nonspecific, and treatment varies between chemotherapy alone and a combination of surgery and chemotherapy. Case presentation We describe a case of a Ashkenazi Jew patient who presented in the typical way that carcinoma of the colon might present but turned out to have a very rare type of tumor in both its histology and its location. Conclusion There was apparent discordance between the relative bulkiness and gross appearance of the tumor with the unrevealing result of the biopsies, demanding a high level of suspicion as to the actual presence and possible type of such a tumor in the future.


Blood ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 136 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 13-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tae Min Kim ◽  
Nehal Lakhani ◽  
Justin Gainor ◽  
Manali Kamdar ◽  
Philip Fanning ◽  
...  

Background: CD47 is a myeloid checkpoint upregulated by tumor cells to evade the host's immune response. The high affinity CD47 blocker fusion protein, ALX148, is linked to an inactive immunoglobulin Fc region to minimize toxicity. ALX148 is half the size of an antibody, has been well tolerated, and enhances the innate and adaptive immune response against cancer in combination with anticancer therapeutics across solid and hematologic tumors (ASCO 2020 #3056, EHA 2020 #EP1247). Characterization of ALX148's tolerability profile and antitumor activity in combination with rituximab are reported in patients (pts) with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL). Methods: Patients with relapsed or refractory CD20-positive B-cell NHL for which no curative therapy was available received ALX148 (10 mg/kg QW or 15 mg/kg QW) in combination with rituximab (375 mg/m2 weekly for 4 doses followed by once monthly for 8 doses). The primary endpoint for the safety population was dose limiting toxicity (DLT). Tumor response, pharmacokinetic (PK), and pharmacodynamic (PD) markers were assessed in all pts. Data are reported as of 30Jun2020 in these fully enrolled cohorts with final data to be updated at the time of presentation. Results: A total of 33 patients with NHL were administered ALX148 in combination with rituximab. Twenty-two pts with median age of 66 years (range 32-80) were administered ALX148, 10 mg/kg QW (ALX10), in combination with rituximab [DLBCL, n=11; mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), n=4; follicular lymphoma (FL), n=5; and marginal zone lymphoma (MZL), n=2]. Eleven pts with median age of 64 years (range 53-78) were administered ALX148, 15 mg/kg QW (ALX15), in combination with rituximab (DLBCL, n=6; MCL, n=1; FL, n=3; and MZL, n=1). There have been no DLTs reported in the fully enrolled safety cohorts, and the MTD of ALX148 in combination with rituximab has not been reached. The maximum ALX148 administered dose is 15 mg/kg QW. Twenty-eight pts experienced any AE, while 16 pts reported mostly low grade treatment-related adverse events (TRAE). The most common TRAEs were rash (21%, n=7), fatigue (9%, n=3), anemia, nausea, neutropenia, and pruritus (6%, n=2 each). With a median follow up of 14 months, objective responses were observed across all histologies in response-evaluable ALX10 pts: 40.9% ORR (4CR,5PR, 6SD, n=22 total) and with a median follow up of 9 months in ALX15 pts: 63.6% ORR (3CR, 4PR, 1SD, n=11 total). Preliminary results indicate favorable ALX148 PK and near complete CD47 receptor occupancy across the dosing interval. Final results will be updated at time of presentation. Conclusions: ALX148 demonstrates excellent tolerability with durable responses in combination with rituximab in patients with relapsed/refractory NHL. The MTD of ALX148 in combination with rituximab was not reached. Encouraging preliminary activity and favorable PK/PD characteristics in combination with rituximab were observed at all dose levels with greater objective response rates reported at the MAD of 15 mg/kg QW. Disclosures Kim: Boryung: Consultancy; Voronoi: Consultancy; F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd/Genentech, Inc.: Consultancy; Sanofi: Consultancy; Novartis: Consultancy; Takeda: Consultancy; AstraZeneca and Korea Health Industry Development Institute: Research Funding; AstraZeneca: Consultancy. Lakhani:incyte: Research Funding; merck: Research Funding; mersana: Research Funding; northern biologics: Research Funding; odonate: Research Funding; pfizer: Research Funding; ikena: Research Funding; symphogen: Research Funding; taiRx: Research Funding; tesaro: Research Funding; livzon: Research Funding; loxo: Research Funding; macrogenics: Research Funding; inhibRx: Research Funding; cytomx: Research Funding; formation biologics: Research Funding; forty seven inc: Research Funding; alexion Pharmaceuticals: Research Funding; Alpine Biosciences: Research Funding; ALX Oncology Inc.: Research Funding; Apexian: Research Funding; asana biosciences: Research Funding; ascentage pharma: Research Funding; beigene: Research Funding; celgene: Research Funding; cerulean pharma: Research Funding; constellation pharma: Research Funding; coordination therapeutics: Research Funding; regeneron: Research Funding; sapience therapeutics: Research Funding; shattuck labs: Research Funding; innovent bio: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; jounce therapeutics: Research Funding. Gainor:theravance: Consultancy; adaptimmune: Research Funding; ariad: Research Funding; astrazeneka: Research Funding; blueprint medicines: Research Funding; lily: Consultancy; gilead sciences: Consultancy; merck: Consultancy, Research Funding; moderna therapeutics: Consultancy, Research Funding; tesaro: Research Funding; blueprint medicines: Consultancy; novartis: Research Funding; oncorus: Consultancy; regeneron: Consultancy; bristol-myers Squibb: Consultancy, Research Funding; amgen: Consultancy; array biopharma: Consultancy, Research Funding; agios: Consultancy; ironwood pharmaceuticals: Consultancy; takeda: Consultancy; genentech: Consultancy, Research Funding; jounce therapeutics: Consultancy, Research Funding. Kamdar:Roche: Research Funding. Fanning:ALX Oncology Inc.: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Squifflet:ALX Oncology Inc.: Consultancy; IDDI: Current Employment. Jin:ALX Oncology Inc.: Current Employment. Forgie:ALX Oncology Inc.: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company; Pfizer Inc.: Ended employment in the past 24 months. Wan:Tallac Therapeutics: Current Employment, Current equity holder in private company; ALX Oncology Inc.: Consultancy, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Pons:ALX Oncology Inc.: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Randolph:ALX Oncology Inc.: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Kim:F. Hoffmann-La Roche: Research Funding; Pfizer: Research Funding; JJ: Research Funding; Celltrion: Research Funding; Kyowa Kirn: Research Funding; Donga: Research Funding; Mundipharma: Research Funding.


2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. S74-S75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sattva S. Neelapu ◽  
Frederick L. Locke ◽  
Nancy L. Bartlett ◽  
Lazaros J. Lekakis ◽  
David Miklos ◽  
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