Cardiac tamponade due to malignant pericardial effusion in breast cancer: A case report

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal

Sultan Mahmud¹  Omar Sadeque Khan¹  Md. Aftabuddin¹  Asit Baran Adhikary¹ 

[1] Department of Cardiac Surgery, BSMMU;

关键词: Breast cancer;    Cardiac tamponade;    Malignant;    Pericardial effusion;   

DOI  :  10.3329/bsmmuj.v9i1.28946

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We present a case of 35 years old women who presented to our institution with a history of bilateral infiltrating duct cell carcinoma of breast, chest pain with heaviness, severe respiratory distress and hypotension. Echocardiography revealed massive pericardial effusion with features of cardiac tamponade. The patient was treated with urgent pericardiocentesis followed by subxiphoid pericardial window drainage of 500ml of haemorrhagic pericardial fluid. Cytological examina­tion confirmed the previous suspicious of malignancy. The patient tolerated the procedure very well, immediate sympto­matic relief was observed.

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