January 1, 2010Yonsei Medical JournalOpen Access

Acute Idiopathic Hemorrhagic Pericarditis with Cardiac Tamponade as the Initial Presentation of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

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Structured PICO

Population

29-year-old male presenting with sudden onset dizziness, found to have cardiac tamponade and idiopathic hemorrhagic pericarditis as the initial symptom of HIV infection

Intervention

Pericardiocentesis

Outcome

Improvement in hemodynamics and diagnosis of underlying etiology

HIV infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis of unexplained pericardial effusion or cardiac tamponade.

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Implication

May warrant HIV evaluation in unexplained tamponade; single case leaves open need for validation.

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Park et al. (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a75921a1a44875efa5fffbf https://doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2010.51.2.273

Topics

Pericardial disease

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Acute Idiopathic Hemorrhagic Pericarditis with Cardiac Tamponade as the Initial Presentation of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

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Acute Idiopathic Hemorrhagic Pericarditis with Cardiac Tamponade as the Initial Presentation of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Structured PICO

Discussion

Implication

Cite This Study

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