A Case of a Large Malignant Pericardial Effusion on Computed Tomography Without Electrocardiographic Gating

A 67-year-old female was admitted due to dyspnea. A computed tomography (CT) disclosed a suspicious pulmonary mass and a pericardial effusion. A transthoracic echocardiogram confirmed a large-volume circumferential pericardial effusion. A pericardiocentesis was performed, and the cytological and his...

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Autores principales: Flores, Rui, Mané, Fernando, Conde, Inês, Pereira, Vítor Hugo, Azevedo, Pedro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9957554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36843767
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34176
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author Flores, Rui
Mané, Fernando
Conde, Inês
Pereira, Vítor Hugo
Azevedo, Pedro
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Mané, Fernando
Conde, Inês
Pereira, Vítor Hugo
Azevedo, Pedro
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description A 67-year-old female was admitted due to dyspnea. A computed tomography (CT) disclosed a suspicious pulmonary mass and a pericardial effusion. A transthoracic echocardiogram confirmed a large-volume circumferential pericardial effusion. A pericardiocentesis was performed, and the cytological and histochemical studies later confirmed the diagnosis of pulmonary adenocarcinoma. This case report highlights the casualty of having found a cardiac tamponade through a CT not synchronized with an electrocardiogram.
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spelling pubmed-99575542023-02-25 A Case of a Large Malignant Pericardial Effusion on Computed Tomography Without Electrocardiographic Gating Flores, Rui Mané, Fernando Conde, Inês Pereira, Vítor Hugo Azevedo, Pedro Cureus Cardiology A 67-year-old female was admitted due to dyspnea. A computed tomography (CT) disclosed a suspicious pulmonary mass and a pericardial effusion. A transthoracic echocardiogram confirmed a large-volume circumferential pericardial effusion. A pericardiocentesis was performed, and the cytological and histochemical studies later confirmed the diagnosis of pulmonary adenocarcinoma. This case report highlights the casualty of having found a cardiac tamponade through a CT not synchronized with an electrocardiogram. Cureus 2023-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9957554/ /pubmed/36843767 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34176 Text en Copyright © 2023, Flores et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Conde, Inês
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A Case of a Large Malignant Pericardial Effusion on Computed Tomography Without Electrocardiographic Gating
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title_short A Case of a Large Malignant Pericardial Effusion on Computed Tomography Without Electrocardiographic Gating
title_sort case of a large malignant pericardial effusion on computed tomography without electrocardiographic gating
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9957554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36843767
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34176
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