RT Book, Section
A1 Jawaid, Asif
A1 Delzell, Jr, John E.
A1 Chumley, Heidi S.
A2 Usatine, Richard P.
A2 Smith, Mindy A.
A2 Mayeaux, Jr., E.J.
A2 Chumley, Heidi S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1164346932
T1 Pericardial Effusion
T2 The Color Atlas and Synopsis of Family Medicine, 3e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259862045
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1164346932
RD 2024/04/25
AB A  30-year-old  woman  presented  to  her  family  physician  with  increasing  shortness  of  breath  over  the  past  2  weeks.  Two  weeks  ago  she  developed  a  flulike  illness  and  felt  like  she  never  recovered.  She  denied  chest  pain  or  edema,  did  not  take  any  medications,  and  had  not  had  any  recent  trauma  or  surgery.  She  had  a  normal  examination.  Her  chest  radiograph  showed  a  classic  globular  heart  as  demonstrated  in  Figure  51-1.  She  had  nonspecific  ST  changes  on  her  ECG.  An  echocardiogram  confirmed  pericardial  effusion  (Figure  51-2).  The  underlying  etiology  was  not  elucidated,  but  she  recovered  spontaneously  over  the  next  several  months.