Cholesterol Pericarditis
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Cholesterol pericarditis with massive pericardial cholesterol cyst.
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A 24-year-old man, an official, was admitted to our Clinic in April, 1962, for evaluation of huge cardiac shadow. In 1952, he was fortuitously found to have an enlargement of the cardiac shadow, when tuberculin reaction turned positive. He was then suspected of pericarditis in a certain clinic, but, having no serious complaints, he had left it untreated since. Though he had been said to have "e...
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Cholesterol pericarditis, first described in 1919 by Alexander and characterized by the presence of abundant microscopic cholesterol crystals in the pericardial fluid, is an uncommon disease, with fewer than 100 cases so far reported. While 49% are idiopathic, the remainder are associated with hypothyroidism, tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis and, very occasionally, with renal polycytosis, hea...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 1955
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.12.2.193