Pyopericardium progressing to tamponade in a patient with immune thrombocytopenia (original) (raw)

BMJ case reports, 2018

Abstract

Pericardial effusion can develop during any stage of pericarditis, and small effusions that appear rapidly can cause cardiac tamponade. Pyopericardium is a rare aetiology for tamponade. This is a case of an elderly diabetic lady, on steroid therapy for immune thrombocytopenia, who presented with fever and acute dyspnoea. She developed cardiac tamponade due to pyopericardium with as the causative organism. pyopericardium, in the absence of a primary focus of infection, progressing to tamponade is an uncommon scenario.

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