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BMJ CASE REPORTS
Volume 14, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2021-244518
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cardiovascular medicine; pericardial disease; COVID-19; respiratory system
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COVID-19 can have various cardiac manifestations, such as cardiac tamponade, requiring emergency management and treatment. Prompt intervention and appropriate medications can lead to improvement in the patient's condition.
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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