Cardiac death 25 years after successful treatment for Hodgkin's disease—Case report

Received 21 July 2009; accepted 23 September 2009.

Abstract

In the following case, the authors are discussing a connection between treating Hodgkin's disease in childhood and later sudden cardiac death of the patient at the age of 37. Examined expert literature describes injuries of the myocardium because of therapeutic irradiation in the childhood.

Keywords: Hodgkin's disease, Irradiation, Cardiac complications

a Institute of Forensic Medicine, Medical faculty, University of Ljubljana, Korytkova 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

b Institute of Oncology, Zaloška cesta 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Corresponding author. Tel.: +386 1 543 72 01; fax: +386 1 524 38 64.

PII: S1875-1741(09)00026-3

doi:10.1016/j.fsisup.2009.09.004

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