Motivation:

To describe an uncommon cause of acute cardiac failure such as primary cardiac lymphoma.

Methods:

Presentation of a case with medical history and clinical records of admission, established management and outcomes.

Results and conclusions:

Malignant cardiac tumours are quite infrequent, even more so with cardiac lymphoma, which is why they usually are not taken into consideration by physicians when making a differential diagnosis. A new case of cardiac lymphoma manifesting as acute cardiac failure syndrome is presented in the literature.

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