Spontaneous chylous cardiac tamponade: a case report

BACKGROUND: Chylous cardiac tamponade is a rare condition with little known cause. CASE PRESENTATION: A case of an otherwise healthy woman who admitted with dyspnea and palpitations is presented. She had a history of a painful flexion-hyperextension of the spine. Diagnostic evaluation proved a chylo...

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Autores principales: Barbetakis, Nikolaos, Asteriou, Christos, Konstantinou, Dimitrios, Giannoglou, Dimitrios, Tsilikas, Christodoulos, Giannoglou, Georgios
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20236535
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-11
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author Barbetakis, Nikolaos
Asteriou, Christos
Konstantinou, Dimitrios
Giannoglou, Dimitrios
Tsilikas, Christodoulos
Giannoglou, Georgios
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Asteriou, Christos
Konstantinou, Dimitrios
Giannoglou, Dimitrios
Tsilikas, Christodoulos
Giannoglou, Georgios
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description BACKGROUND: Chylous cardiac tamponade is a rare condition with little known cause. CASE PRESENTATION: A case of an otherwise healthy woman who admitted with dyspnea and palpitations is presented. She had a history of a painful flexion-hyperextension of the spine. Diagnostic evaluation proved a chylous pericardial effusion with a disruption of the anterior longitudinal spinal ligament. Video-assisted thoracic surgery with mass supradiaphragmatic ligation of the thoracic duct and pericardial window formation was carried out successfully and resulted in the complete cure of the patient's condition. CONCLUSION: Chylous pericardial effusion and subsequent tamponade is a rare entity. Endoscopic surgery is offering a safe and effective treatment.
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spelling pubmed-28480342010-04-01 Spontaneous chylous cardiac tamponade: a case report Barbetakis, Nikolaos Asteriou, Christos Konstantinou, Dimitrios Giannoglou, Dimitrios Tsilikas, Christodoulos Giannoglou, Georgios J Cardiothorac Surg Case report BACKGROUND: Chylous cardiac tamponade is a rare condition with little known cause. CASE PRESENTATION: A case of an otherwise healthy woman who admitted with dyspnea and palpitations is presented. She had a history of a painful flexion-hyperextension of the spine. Diagnostic evaluation proved a chylous pericardial effusion with a disruption of the anterior longitudinal spinal ligament. Video-assisted thoracic surgery with mass supradiaphragmatic ligation of the thoracic duct and pericardial window formation was carried out successfully and resulted in the complete cure of the patient's condition. CONCLUSION: Chylous pericardial effusion and subsequent tamponade is a rare entity. Endoscopic surgery is offering a safe and effective treatment. BioMed Central 2010-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2848034/ /pubmed/20236535 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-11 Text en Copyright ©2010 Barbetakis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Spontaneous chylous cardiac tamponade: a case report
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20236535
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-11
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