MYXOEDEMA WITH PERICARDIAL EFFUSION

Case of Myxoedema with a Huge Pericardial Effusion and Cardiac Tamponade.

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Pericardial effusion.

Uveal effusion as a sign of myxoedema.

The only frequent extraocular abnormalities they found, in spite of fairly intense medical investigation, were a raised cerebrospinal fluid protein without pleocytosis and some patients with "rheumatic disorder". They reported seventeen cases, including one female. They drew attention to several previous papers reporting cases similar to their own. Stallard (I954) described six cases of "a pecu...

Tuberculous pericardial abscess with impending pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade.

The case of a 59 year male with acute tuberculous pericardial abscess who presented with cough, dyspnoea, haemoptysis, signs of Tamponade and a large Pleural Effusion is reported. Performing Pericardiocentesis did not improve his symptoms hence he was subjected to surgery. Acute tuberculous pericardial abscess was the diagnosis made after histopathology which was successfully managed with stern...

Cytokines in Pericardial Effusion of Patients with Inflammatory Pericardial Disease

BACKGROUND The role of inflammatory and angiogenic cytokines in patients with inflammatory pericardial effusion still remains uncertain. METHODS We assessed pericardial and serum levels of VEGF, bFGF, IL-1β and TNF-α by ELISA in patients with inflammatory pericardial effusion (PE) of autoreactive (n = 22) and viral (n = 11) origin, and for control in pericardial fluid (PF) and serum (n = 26) ...