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Case Reports
. 2015 Jun 15:21:122.
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2015.21.122.6988. eCollection 2015.

Concurrent acute pancreatitis and pericardial effusion

Yusuf Kayar  1 , Kenan Ahmet Turkdogan  2 , Birol Baysal  1 , Nigar Gultekin  1 , Ahmet Danalioglu  1 , Ali Tuzun Ince  1 , Hakan Senturk  1
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Case Reports

Concurrent acute pancreatitis and pericardial effusion

Yusuf Kayar et al. Pan Afr Med J. .

Abstract

While pleural effusion and ascites secondary to acute pancreatitis are common, clinically relevant pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade are observed rarely. In a study by Pezzilli et al., pleural effusion was noted in 7 of the 21 patients with acute pancreatitis whereas the authors detected pericardial effusion development in only three. The authors asserted that pleural effusion was associated with severe acute pancreatitis, while pericardial effusion and the severity of acute pancreatitis were not significantly related.

Keywords: Acute pancreatitis; pericardial effusion; pleural effusion.

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Figure 1
(A): chest X-ray on admission showing a massive enlargement of the cardiac silhouettewithout pleural effusions; (B): pericardial effusion reaching 23 mm at the thickest point with thoracic tomography; (C, D): pancreatic, peripancreatic inflammation and peripancreaticlocular fluidwith abdominal tomography
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