Spontaneous Hemopericardium Leading to Cardiac Tamponade in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia

Acute cardiac tamponade requires urgent diagnosis and treatment. Spontaneous hemopericardium leading to cardiac tamponade as an initial manifestation of essential thrombocythemia (ET) has never been reported in the literature. We report a case of a 72-year-old Caucasian female who presented with spo...

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Autores principales: Deshmukh, Anand, Subbiah, Shanmuga P., Malhotra, Sakshi, Deshmukh, Pooja, Pasupuleti, Suman, Mohiuddin, Syed
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3034953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21318136
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/247814
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author Deshmukh, Anand
Subbiah, Shanmuga P.
Malhotra, Sakshi
Deshmukh, Pooja
Pasupuleti, Suman
Mohiuddin, Syed
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description Acute cardiac tamponade requires urgent diagnosis and treatment. Spontaneous hemopericardium leading to cardiac tamponade as an initial manifestation of essential thrombocythemia (ET) has never been reported in the literature. We report a case of a 72-year-old Caucasian female who presented with spontaneous hemopericardium and tamponade requiring emergent pericardiocentesis. The patient was subsequently diagnosed to have ET. ET is characterized by elevated platelet counts that can lead to thrombosis but paradoxically it can also lead to a bleeding diathesis. Physicians should be aware of this complication so that timely life-saving measures can be taken if this complication arises.
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spelling pubmed-30349532011-02-11 Spontaneous Hemopericardium Leading to Cardiac Tamponade in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia Deshmukh, Anand Subbiah, Shanmuga P. Malhotra, Sakshi Deshmukh, Pooja Pasupuleti, Suman Mohiuddin, Syed Cardiol Res Pract Case Report Acute cardiac tamponade requires urgent diagnosis and treatment. Spontaneous hemopericardium leading to cardiac tamponade as an initial manifestation of essential thrombocythemia (ET) has never been reported in the literature. We report a case of a 72-year-old Caucasian female who presented with spontaneous hemopericardium and tamponade requiring emergent pericardiocentesis. The patient was subsequently diagnosed to have ET. ET is characterized by elevated platelet counts that can lead to thrombosis but paradoxically it can also lead to a bleeding diathesis. Physicians should be aware of this complication so that timely life-saving measures can be taken if this complication arises. SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3034953/ /pubmed/21318136 http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/247814 Text en Copyright © 2011 Anand Deshmukh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Deshmukh, Anand
Subbiah, Shanmuga P.
Malhotra, Sakshi
Deshmukh, Pooja
Pasupuleti, Suman
Mohiuddin, Syed
Spontaneous Hemopericardium Leading to Cardiac Tamponade in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia
title Spontaneous Hemopericardium Leading to Cardiac Tamponade in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia
title_full Spontaneous Hemopericardium Leading to Cardiac Tamponade in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia
title_fullStr Spontaneous Hemopericardium Leading to Cardiac Tamponade in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous Hemopericardium Leading to Cardiac Tamponade in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia
title_short Spontaneous Hemopericardium Leading to Cardiac Tamponade in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia
title_sort spontaneous hemopericardium leading to cardiac tamponade in a patient with essential thrombocythemia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3034953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21318136
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/247814
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