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Complete atrioventricular block induced by rituximab in monotherapy in an aged patient with non-Hodgkin’s diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

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Rituximab is a treatment option to non-Hodgkin’s diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (NHDLBCL) in advanced stage and comorbility. It is known the cardiotoxicity effect of this drug, but there is no previous report describing a complete atrioventricular block (CAVB) secundary to treatment with Rituximab. We present an elderly woman treated with monotherapy with Rituximab who experienced a CAVB after administration of the fifth dose of this drug.

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  1. Oncology Department, Hospital General de Elda, Carretera Sax-La Torreta, s/n, ES-03600, Elda, Alicante, Spain

    José Manuel Cervera Grau, Gaspar Esquerdo Galiana, Cristina Llorca Ferrándiz, Asunción Juárez Marroquí & Sonia Maciá Escalante

  2. Internal Medicine Department, Hospital General de Elda, Alicante, Spain

    Ana Belso Candela

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Cervera Grau, J.M., Galiana, G.E., Candela, A.B. et al. Complete atrioventricular block induced by rituximab in monotherapy in an aged patient with non-Hodgkin’s diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Clin Transl Oncol 10, 298–299 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12094-008-0201-1

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