ArticleBMJ case reports2021
Cardiac tamponade and massive pleural effusion in a young COVID-19-positive adult.
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- Analyzing pleural fluid attributes in SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic review.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Review
- Low-pressure tamponade due to hemothorax after transcatheter edge-to-edge repair of the mitral valve.World journal of cardiology · 2025Article
- The Jack-in-the-Box: Pericardial Decompression Syndrome Managed by a Multidisciplinary Approach with Early Initiation of Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Case Report.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Pericardial and Pleural Effusions in Non-ICU Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19-A Retrospective Single-Center Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Inflammatory process of the COVID-19 fulminant myocarditis in the multimodality imaging: a case report.European heart journal. Case reports · 2023Article
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- Life-Threatening Cardiac Tamponade Secondary to COVID-19 Treated with Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: A Case Report.The American journal of case reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
COVID-19 has a broad spectrum of cardiac manifestations, and cardiac tamponade leading to cardiogenic shock is a rare presentation. A 30-year-old man with a history of COVID-19-positive, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) done 1 week ago and who was home-quarantined, came to the emergency department with palpitations, breathlessness and orthopnoea. His ECG showed sinus tachycardia with low-voltage complexes, chest X-ray showed cardiomegaly and left pleural effusion and two-dimensional echocardiography showed large pericardial effusion with features suggestive of cardiac tamponade. He was taken up for emergency pericardiocentesis which showed haemorrhagic pericardial fluid. Intercostal drainage insertion was done for left-sided large pleural effusion. After ruling out all the other causes for haemorrhagic pericardial effusion, the patient was started on colchicine, steroids, ibuprofen and antibiotics to which he responded. Both pericardial and pleural effusions resolved completely on follow-up.
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