Cardiopathy cobalt

A case of malignant lymphoma with cardiovascular manifestations is reported. It is a febrile form with compression of the aortic ring provoking a murmur simulating aortic valve disease with an Osler's graft. An analysis of the various complications due to lymphomas reported in the published literature emphasizes the iatrogenic nature of some of them: cardiac toxicity of chemotherapy, post-radiotherapy pericarditis, and increased incidence of coronaritis after both cobalt and radiotherapy. The diagnosis of lymphomas in the cardiac area is difficult but should be evoked in case of febrile and chronic cardiopathy, no other etiology being detectable...

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There exist 11 essential elements (iron, copper, iodine, zinc, chromium, cobalt, molybdenum, manganese, nickel, selenium and fluorine) vitally important for human health. The deficiency of these trace elements results in many pathological processes, including such world-wide human diseases, as iron-deficient anemias and other forms of hyposiderosis, endemic hypothyroid goiter, endemic fluorine deficiency states, particularly manifested by dental caries in children and osteoporosis of the advanced age. Selenium deficiency causes endemic cardiopathy in China, is a risk factor for the development and severe course of congestive cardiopathies, as well as myocardial infarction in a number of European countries...