Recurrent haemorrhagic pericardial effusion due to idiopathic pericarditis: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Haemorrhagic pericardial effusion (PE) has been described in pericarditis due to infection, neoplasm, collagen vascular disease, uraemia, pericardial inflammation after acute myocardial infarction, trauma, irradiation, and idiopathic pericarditis. Patients with large haemorrhagic PE develop recurrence or constrictive pericarditis (CP) frequently as complication without being treated intensively.

Case summary

A 22-year-old female patient with a previous episode of pericarditis with severe PE was admitted for acute pericarditis. Three days before, she was evaluated at the emergency department and presented normal laboratory workup and no significant findings in the transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE). A new TTE showed severe PE and laboratory work-up showed low haemo

SUBMITTER: Rivero A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6439374 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature