Unexplained Hypotension in Hodgkin’s Disease

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A 51 -year-old black male with progressive polymyositis presented to our hospital with respiratory failure. Hemodynamic monitoring revealed tachycardia, arterial hypotension, a high cardiac index, and low systemic vascular resistance. Evaluation for common etiologies of this hemodynamic pattern was unrewarding. He was found to have Hodgkin’s disease of the bone marrow. Aggressive combination chemotherapy led to normalization of heart rate and arterial pressure. It is postulated that Hodgkin’s disease through some undetermined mechanism can cause a hyperdynamic circulatory pattern. This hemodynamic state reversed with suppression of the tumor

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Journal ID (publisher-id): CRD

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Cardiology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0008-6312

Title: Cardiology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0008-6312

ISSN (Electronic): 1421-9751

Publication date Subscription-year: 1988

Publication date (Print): 1988

Publication date (Electronic): 11 November 2008

Volume: 75

Issue: 2

Pages: 154-156

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Sections of Cardiology and Hematology, Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisc, USA.

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Publisher ID: 174363 Other ID: Cardiology 1988;75:154–156

DOI: 10.1159/000174363

PubMed ID: 3370658

SO-VID: 8cb08725-54a9-49da-920d-6d5fc45a52a4

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Date received : 17 April 1987

Date accepted : 16 June 1987

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Pages: 3

Unexplained Hypotension in Hodgkin’s Disease

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