Cardiac Tamponade in a Patient with Primary Hypothyroidism

Overview

Journal Indian J Endocrinol Metab

Specialty Endocrinology

Date 2011 Oct 4

PMID 21966654

Citations 15

Authors

Virendra C Patil

Harsha V Patil

Vaibhav Agrawal

Sanjay Patil

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Abstract

Pericardial effusion is frequently found in patients with hypothyroidism, but it is rarely associated with cardiac tamponade. Hypothyroidism complicated by cardiac tamponade is rarely referenced in the medical literature. Here we report an unusual case of a 45-year-old female, who presented with breathlessness and was found to have hypothyroidism with large pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade. Treatment included an emergency pericardiocentesis followed by thyroxine hormone replacement.

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