Three serial chest radiographs (CXR) are presented to document the patient’s clinical course. (A) Patient’s on CXR to the emergency department, which shows a right sided pulmonary infiltrate as the probable cause nfants presenting respiratory distress. (B) The development of pneumopericardium (black arrows) after endotratubation. (C) CXR taken after pericardiocentesis and insertion of a pericar...

A 48 year old man with amoebic pericarditis did not improve after pericardiocentesis. Facilities for echocardiography and haemodynamic studies were not available. Cardiac compression was suspected and at emergency pericardiectomy subacute effusive constrictive amoebic pericarditis was found. The patient recovered. This is believed to be the first report of a case of subacute effusive constricti...

Cardiac tamponade complicating central venous catheters is usually fatal. We present a 23 year old woman who developed cardiac tamponade 12 hours after the insertion of a subclavian line. Early recognition of this complication and urgent pericardiocentesis led to her survival.

A 43-year-old man collapsed suddenly, with pericardial tamponade, seven weeks after an inferior myocardial infarction. Pericardiocentesis disclosed very heavily blood stained fluid. Left ventricular angiography 10 days later showed a left ventricular aneurysm. At operation a left ventricular false aneurysm was resected and the patient recovered uneventfully.

A spontaneous intrapericardial haemorrhage caused cardiac tamponade in a 29 year old paraplegic man who was being treated with warfarin. The associated persistent hyponatraemia, which was believed to be caused by an inappropriately high release of antidiuretic hormone, rapidly resolved after pericardiocentesis.

Gaucher's disease is a rare lysosomal storage disorder. Excess accumulation of glucosylceramide predominantly occurs in abdominal viscera. Cardiac involvement is rare, though they generally represent as restrictive cardiomyopathy and pericarditis. Our case, a 19-year old boy initially presented with hepatosplenomegaly but later diagnosed with haemorrhagic pericardial effusion. Enzyme supplement...

PURPOSE Lengthy resuscitations in the catheterisation laboratory carry extremely high rates of mortality because it is essentially impossible to perform effective chest compressions during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of a mechanical chest compression device, LUCAS, in the catheterisation laboratory, in patients who suffered circula...

Tamponade jantung merupakan kondisi emergensi yang disebabkan oleh peningkatan tekanan intraperikardium karena akumulasi cairan pericardium, sehingga terjadi kompresi ruang-ruang jantung, mengakibatkan curah menurun. Terapi definitif tamponade adalah perikardiosentesis, dapat dilakukan dengan bantuan ekokardiografi. Keberhasilan perikardiosentesis ekokardiografi mencapai >95%, namun juga mem...

Abstract Background Anakinra, an interleukin 1β recombinant receptor antagonist, could be used to reduce corticosteroid-dosage in colchicine-resistant pericarditis. Recently anakinra has been approved treat patients presenting covid-19 related pneumonia requiring supplementary oxygen at risk of developing ARDS (identified by the finding sieric suPAR least 6 ng/mL.) Clinical case A 86-years-old ...