Pericardial infiltration and constriction due to cardiac actinomycosis-case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Constrictive pericarditis associated with actinomycosis infection is a rare and challenging diagnosis due to its insidious manifestation. We describe the successful treatment of pericardial infiltration and constriction due to actinomycosis.

Case summary

A 50-year-old Aboriginal man presented with insidious onset of fatigue, dyspnoea, pleuritic chest pain, fever, drenching sweats, severe exercise intolerance to 50 m, and recurrent itchy skin lesions over 8 months. Prior investigations, including serial fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-Positron emission tomography scans, found a progressively enlarging, metabolically active anterior mediastinal mass with two biopsies on separate occasions showing no malignancy, granulomas, tuberculosis, or other pathology. Screening for in

SUBMITTER: Korkchi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10702456 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature