[A heart transplant in a patient with doxorubicin-induced myocardiopathy as a complication of the treatment of a lymphoma]

Abstract

We present the case of a young man who developed severe cardiomyopathy eight years after receiving high-dose doxorubicin therapy as treatment for diffuse lymphoblastic lymphoma. He underwent cardiac transplantation and eighteen months later the tumor has not recurred and the patient has no cardiac symptoms.