Background: Pericardial involvement, with subsequent effusion and cardiac tamponade, may be a metastatic manifestation of an advanced lung carcinoma. These neoplastic pericardial effusions are usually asymptomatic and often times being diagnosed at an autopsy. We report on a 44-year-old woman who presented with cardiac tamponade and further investigations revealed a metastasis from the lung can...

a 64-year-old female with history of previous aortoiliac occlusion and aortoiliac bypass operation four months ago presented with dyspnea, ascites and leg edema. she has been suffering from bloody diarrhea since two weeks earlier. laboratory data showed important eosinophilia and stool examination was positive for strongyloides stercoralis. patient had clinical signs of heart failure. a cardiac...

A clinical case report of late diagnosis (in relation to manifestation) the classic phenotype Fabry disease in patient with cardiac involvement: phenocopy hypertrophy cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias and conduction abnormalities.

We present a case of a 29-year-old man who was initially presented to our institution with the complaint of fever, cough, facial tenderness and pain. On clinical examination patient had nasal mucosal hypertrophy. His blood examination revealed moderate anemia (hemoglobin: 7.9 g/dL), leucocytosis with neutrophilia (WBC13.600/mm3) and markedly elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) of 86 m...

Hypereosinophilic syndrome was diagnosed in a 14 year old girl who presented with recurrent syncope. An ambulatory electrocardiogram revealed intermittent type 2 second degree left atrioventricular (AV) block. Focal thinning of the interventricular septum was noted on echocardiography, contrary to the commoner finding of regional ventricular wall thickening among patients with hypereosinophilic...

Non tropical, non hypereosinophilic endo myocardial fibrosis has been reported in literature and is a rare entity.  Cardiac Sarcoidosis manifesting as non-tropical, non hypereosinophilic endomyocardial fibrosis is unknown, though it classically affects the left ventricle and is not associated with specific risk factors. We describe an atypical presentation of sarcoidosis as non-tropical non hyp...