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Pericardial Abscess Mimicking Intracardiac Neoplasm Causing Right Heart Failure

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2005 Greece Publisher:Hindawi LimitedJournal:Journal of Cardiac Surgery, volume 20, pages 77-80 (issn: 0886-0440, eissn: 1540-8191,

Authors: Karagounis, A. P.; Stefanou, D. C.; Sarsam, M.;

doi: 10.1111/j.0886-0440.2005.200404.x

pmid: 15673417

Pericardial Abscess Mimicking Intracardiac Neoplasm Causing Right Heart Failure

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Abstract

Purulent pericarditis involves the whole pericardium and usually presents as an acute illness with high mortality without prompt diagnosis and treatment. Presentation as a mediastinal mass causing compression of the right ventricle (RV) and symptoms of heart failure in patients without previous cardiac surgery is very rare and only three cases have been reported up to now (English language medical literature). Clinicians should be aware of this unusual condition for prompt diagnosis and treatment to be instituted.

Country

Greece

Related Organizations

St George's, University of London
United Kingdom
St George's Hospital
United Kingdom
University of Ioannina
Greece
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
United Kingdom

Keywords

Heart Failure, Heart Neoplasms/ultrasonography, Heart Failure/*etiology/ultrasonography, Abscess, Diagnosis, Differential, Heart Neoplasms, Acute Disease, Abscess/*complications/*ultrasonography, Humans, Pericarditis, Female, Pericarditis/*complications/*ultrasonography, Echocardiography, Transesophageal, Aged

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