Effusive-constrictive cholesterol pericarditis: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cholesterol pericarditis (CP) remains a rare pericardial disease characterized by chronic pericardial effusions with high cholesterol concentrations with or without the formation of cholesterol crystals. Effusions are often large and can cause ventricular compression and subsequent pericardial adhesion formation. CP can be idiopathic but has associations with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), tuberculosis and hypothyroidism.

Case summary

We present a case of a 72-year-old male with a background of seropositive RA with a finding of an incidental pericardial effusion on computed tomography thorax abdomen and pelvis. Transthoracic echocardiogram demonstrated a large effusion with echocardiographic features of tamponade. On review, he was breathless with a raised venous pres

SUBMITTER: Shergill S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7850630 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature