Chronic pericardial effusion in the setting of pericardial capillary haemangioma: a case report and review of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Cardiac haemangiomas are rare vascular tumours of the heart accounting for less than 5% of benign primary cardiac neoplasms. They are sometimes diagnosed incidentally, since patients can be asymptomatic. The clinical presentation in symptomatic patients, however, is variable, depending on size and exact localization of the tumour. Although cardiac haemangiomas have been reported everywhere in the heart, those localized in the pericardium are extremely rare.

Case presentation

A 48-year-old female patient with a history of pericardial effusion and pneumonia was admitted to our hospital with progressive dyspnoea on exertion. Echocardiography demonstrated recurrence of pericardial effusion with 'swinging heart'. Further investigation by computed tomography, cardiac

SUBMITTER: Seitz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6426034 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature