Pericardial cysts are rare lesions. These benign anomalies are located in the middle mediastinum. In this article, we present a 24-year-old man who was referred to the emergency department with dyspnea and persistent cough. In physical exam, no abnormality was found. His past medical history was normal. His trans-thoracic echocardiogram showed an echo-lucent space next to the right atrium at th...

Purulent pericarditis is a rare entity in the postantibiotic era. It usually occurs in patients who have underlying chronic and immunosuppressing conditions and its presentation in the healthy adult population is quite rare. Infection of the pericardial space can occur via direct extension from infectious endocarditis, pneumonia, or empyema, or from a more distant source such as meningitis. Pur...

Cardiac tumors are exceedingly rare (0.001-0.03% in most autopsy series). They can be present anywhere within the heart and can be attached to any surface or be embedded in the myocardium or pericardial space. Signs and symptoms are nonspecific and highly variable related to the localization, size and composition of the cardiac mass. Echocardiography, typically performed for another indication,...

yellow nail syndrome (yns) is an uncommon condition characterized by nail changes, lymphedema, in addition to pulmonary disorders and pleural effusion. pericarditis and non-cardiac disorders can evolve with pericardial effusions including autoimmune conditions, hypothyroidism, malignancies, tuberculosis, and uremia. a 72-year-old brazilian woman under treatment for arterial hypertension and hyp...

Corresponding author: Dr. Fabio Guarracino Cardiothoracic Department Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy Via Paradisa, 2 56123 Pisa, Italy e.mail: [email protected] A 38 year male was transferred to our Cardiothoracic Department with a long blade into the thorax following suicide attempt. On arrival in the operating ro...

BACKGROUND Malignant pericardial effusion caused by carcinomatous pericarditis is a complication of advanced malignancy. Breast cancer is the second most important cause of malignant pericardial effusion. Malignant pericardial effusion is the end stage of breast cancer, and the prognosis is very poor. Pericardial effusion may cause cardiac tamponade and sudden death if it is not controlled prop...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the mobility of a temperature-sensitive poloxamer/Alginate/CaCl2 mixture (PACM) in relation to gravity and cardiac motion and the efficacy of PACM on the prevention of pericardial adhesion in a supine rabbit model. METHODS A total of 50 rabbits were randomly divided into two groups according to materials applied after epicardial abrasion: PACM and dye mixture (group ...

The rarity with which cystic hygroma occurs in, and is confined to, the mediastinum justifies the report of a further case. Gross and Hurwitt (1948), after a careful review of the literature, were able to find only seven cases which they regarded as undoubted cystic hygromata, and they added a further one of their own. The author has excluded one of the cases collected by these authors, namely ...