Massive Pericardial Effusion in a 14-Year-Old Girl with Mild Fatigue and Neck Pain

Pericardial effusion is rare in pediatric patients and is characterized by a variable clinical presentation. Mild symptoms may be present despite severe effusion. We here report the case of a patient with massive pericardial effusion with mild clinical presentation. Our case points out the need not...

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Autores principales: Corsini, Ilaria, Leardini, Davide, Carfagnini, Filomena, Pession, Andrea, Lanari, Marcello
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8788428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35076583
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pediatric14010002
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author Corsini, Ilaria
Leardini, Davide
Carfagnini, Filomena
Pession, Andrea
Lanari, Marcello
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Leardini, Davide
Carfagnini, Filomena
Pession, Andrea
Lanari, Marcello
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description Pericardial effusion is rare in pediatric patients and is characterized by a variable clinical presentation. Mild symptoms may be present despite severe effusion. We here report the case of a patient with massive pericardial effusion with mild clinical presentation. Our case points out the need not to exclude this diagnosis in patients with mild general impairment. This clinical suspicion can be lifesaving.
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spelling pubmed-87884282022-01-26 Massive Pericardial Effusion in a 14-Year-Old Girl with Mild Fatigue and Neck Pain Corsini, Ilaria Leardini, Davide Carfagnini, Filomena Pession, Andrea Lanari, Marcello Pediatr Rep Case Report Pericardial effusion is rare in pediatric patients and is characterized by a variable clinical presentation. Mild symptoms may be present despite severe effusion. We here report the case of a patient with massive pericardial effusion with mild clinical presentation. Our case points out the need not to exclude this diagnosis in patients with mild general impairment. This clinical suspicion can be lifesaving. MDPI 2022-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8788428/ /pubmed/35076583 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pediatric14010002 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Corsini, Ilaria
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Lanari, Marcello
Massive Pericardial Effusion in a 14-Year-Old Girl with Mild Fatigue and Neck Pain
title Massive Pericardial Effusion in a 14-Year-Old Girl with Mild Fatigue and Neck Pain
title_full Massive Pericardial Effusion in a 14-Year-Old Girl with Mild Fatigue and Neck Pain
title_fullStr Massive Pericardial Effusion in a 14-Year-Old Girl with Mild Fatigue and Neck Pain
title_full_unstemmed Massive Pericardial Effusion in a 14-Year-Old Girl with Mild Fatigue and Neck Pain
title_short Massive Pericardial Effusion in a 14-Year-Old Girl with Mild Fatigue and Neck Pain
title_sort massive pericardial effusion in a 14-year-old girl with mild fatigue and neck pain
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8788428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35076583
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pediatric14010002
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