A case ofa young woman who presented to emergency department with severe abdominal pain and shock is reported here. The patient was found to have pericardia Itamponade due to massive pericardial effusion. On further evaluation, the etiology of this effusion was found to be secondary to hypothyroidism with concomitant acute viral pericarditis leading to a fulminant tamponade. The presentation, d...

program at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In the vast majority of these patients the pericarditis was present before dialysis and cleared clinically after beginning therapy. Instances of pericarditis that developed during regular dialysis were associated with metabolic stress such as surgery or infection or inadequate dialysis. When the pericarditis failed to resolve the patients usually died...

Although commonly fatal, bacterial pericarditis is often not diagnosed antemortem due to its infrequent occurrence and fulminant course. Historically, Streptococcus pneumoniae has been the most common cause of bacterial pericarditis. Over the past 70 years, however, it has become largely eliminated and now occurs almost exclusively in immunocompromised individuals with a preceding primary site ...

Because of uncertainty existing in respect to the etiologic factors in certain cases of constrictive pericarditis, an analysis of 25 proven cases and of additional series from the literature was conducted. It was evident that a fairly consistent clinical syndrome developed, but the factor of myocardial insufficiency deserves as much consideration as actual constriction by the pericardium. The s...

A Case of calcific constrictive pericarditis in ayoung White woman with a convincing history of previous aCute rheumatic fever complicated by a possible Valvular lesion is presented. Cardiac catheterization confirmed the suspicion of significant cardiac compression. Successful pericardiectomy was carried out, but microscopical examination of the excised pericardium failed to demonstrate a cause...

Chylous ascites and chylothorax are rare clinical entities and usually caused by neoplasms, particularly lymphomas, liver cirrhosis, superior vena cava thrombosis, nephrotic syndrome, and some cardiac events such as dilated cardiomyopathy or right heart failure. Constrictive pericarditis is an extremely rare cause of this clinical state. We report a 41-year-old male patient undergoing haemodial...

Acute pericarditis, or inflammation of the pericardial sac, is a clinical condition which can often be attributed to variety underlying etiologies, including infection, autoimmune disease, trauma, and malignancy. While viral infections are commonly implicated in etiology bacteria known associated with pericarditis include staphylococcus species, streptococcal tuberculosis, children, Haemophilus...

Incidence Acute non-specific pericarditis (acute benign pericarditis; acute idiopathic pericarditis) has been recognized for over 100 years (Christian, 1951). In 1942 Barnes & Burchell described fourteen cases of the condition and since then several series of cases have been published (Krook, 1954; Scherl, 1956; Swan, 1960; Martin, 1966; Logue & Wendkos, 1948). Until recently Swan's (1960) seri...

INTRODUCTION The cardiac manifestations of influenza A are broad, ranging from self-limited pericarditis to fatal cardiomyopathy. The 2009 H1N1 influenza A (H1N1) strain is a rare cause of pericarditis, and its role in developing a pericardial effusion leading to tamponade has infrequently been reported. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of a young female with no prior cardiovascular histo...