A 39-year-old woman with myotonic dystrophy (DM) presented with syncope and was diagnosed with primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma, clinical stage IA. PET-CT revealed an upper mediastinal mass with high FDG uptake (SUVmax, 14.8). She had muscle weakness associated with DM, but her performance status was preserved. She was treated with 6 cycles of dose-adjusted EPOCH-R therapy and localized irradiation for the residual mass, without severe adverse events or recurrence of syncope. Patients with DM should be monitored for cardiac events and muscle weakness when undergoing lymphoma treatment.

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