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Large mediastinal T cell lymphoma can rarely masquerade as cardiac tamponade on transthoracic echocardiography, as demonstrated in a 21-year-old patient presenting with dyspnea.
This case highlights that large mediastinal T cell lymphoma can rarely masquerade as cardiac tamponade on transthoracic echocardiography.
Consider lymphoma in atypical tamponade on TTE in young adults; single case leaves open broader diagnostic implications.
Though malignancy remains the most common cause of cardiac tamponade, large mediastinal T cell lymphoma mimicking as tamponade on transthoracic echocardiogram is rare. In this case report, we describe a 21-year-old otherwise healthy university student with a brief history of dyspnea and flu like constitutional symptoms.
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Harris Gs (2016) studied this question. Large mediastinal T cell lymphoma can rarely masquerade as cardiac tamponade on transthoracic echocardiography, as demonstrated in a 21-year-old patient presenting with dyspnea.
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