A 16-years-old Egyptian girl presented with massive pericardial effusion, fever, weight loss and hoarseness of voice. Laryngoscopy showed left vocal cord paralysis. Chest CT revealed pericardial effusion, amalgamated mediastinal lymph nodes and clear lung fields. Pericardial fluid analysis revealed a lymphocytic exudate with high adenosine deaminase enzyme level, negative stains and cultures fo...

A 73-year-old woman was admitted due to exertional dyspnea. It was considered that a large amount of pericardial effusion caused diastolic heart failure; pericardial paracentesis showed bloody effusion. There were no findings of malignancy or other abnormal findings in the examination. Further examinations were planned but she died of ventricular tachycardia attack. Pathological autopsy reveale...

Introduction. Pericardial effusion in the setting of hyperthyroidism is rare. We present a patient with Graves' disease who developed a sanguineous pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade. Case Description. A 76-year-old man presenting with fatigue was diagnosed with Graves' disease and treated with methimazole. Two months later, he was hospitalized for uncontrolled atrial fibrillation. Elec...

Patients infected with RSV may demonstrate clinical manifestations other than lower respiratory tract infection including cardiac involvement. The heart involvement following RSV infection varies from heart block, ventricular arrhythmia or a variable degree of pericardial effusion. This study was conducted to assess the impact of RSV infection on pericardial effusion and to compare the heart fu...

BACKGROUND Pericardial effusion along with pleural effusion is one of the rare complications of permanent pacemaker placement. Although extremely uncommon, it is more prevalent in elderly patients and may be complicated with hyponatremia. CASE REPORT We observed development of hyponatremia in association with pericardial effusion and pleural effusion, within one month after pacemaker placemen...

BACKGROUND Cardiac involvement is one of clinical presentations in systemic sclerosis (SSc). The pericardial fluid profile and the causes of pericardial effusion were our focus. OBJECTIVES To demonstrate the characteristics and causes of pericardial effusion in SSc. METHODS A descriptive retrospective study was performed on SSc patients with symptomatic pericardial effusion at Srinagarind H...

HYPOTHESIS The approach to pericardial window in patients with nontraumatic pericardial effusion impacts outcome. DESIGN Retrospective review and comparison of all cases of pericardial window performed over 10 years. Follow-up was to patient death. SETTING Three hospitals performing cardiothoracic surgery at a single university. PATIENTS All patients in whom pericardial window was perform...

Two patients with familial Mediterranean fever showed the classic features of pericardial involvement and one of them (Case 2) had pericardial effusion detected by echocardiography. These and previously published cases show that familial Mediterranean fever should be considered as a cause of pericarditis and/or pericardial effusion.