Bloody Pericardial Effusion with a Huge Pericardial Mass: A Case Report
| Autor: | Shapoor Shirani, Tahereh Davarpasand, Mohammad Saheb Jam, Zahra Rahnamoun, Arezou Zoroufian, M Shirzad, Narges Shahbazi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
lcsh:Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system Thymoma medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Tumor resection Usually asymptomatic Pericardial effusion Magnetic resonance imaging Case Report medicine.disease Heart neoplasms Sudden cardiac death Bloody Echocardiography lcsh:RC666-701 medicine Medical imaging Radiology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Tehran University Heart Center, Vol 15, Iss 1 (2020) The Journal of Tehran University Heart Center Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 2008-2371 1735-8620 |
| Popis: | Nowadays, the early diagnosis of tumoral diseases is more possible and accurate with multiple diagnostic imaging modalities such as chest X-ray, echocardiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging, especially for cardiac tumors which are usually asymptomatic, even in large sizes. In cardiac masses, the patients’ presentations are nonspecific and dependent on the tumor size and site as well as its compressive effect on the adjacent structures. On the other hand, the first and last signs could be sudden cardiac death. However, cardiac masses are either benign or malignant and metastatic in their malignant type, and their definite diagnosis is only possible by surgical tumor resection and tissue biopsy. In this paper, we describe an old patient with severe pericardial effusion and an unusual intrapericardial tumor in transthoracic echocardiography, representing a rare case of a giant ectopic thymoma after surgical resection and pathologic assessment. |
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