Key result
Systemic lupus erythematosus can rarely present initially as cardiac tamponade secondary to a loculated pericardial effusion in young male patients.
Highlights that cardiac tamponade can be a rare initial manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus in young men.
Alerts clinicians to rare SLE tamponade in young men; leaves open true incidence and need for confirmatory series.
Although pericarditis and pericardial effusion are common cardiac complications of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), cardiac tamponade is a very rare initial manifestation of this disease. We describe a case of a young male patient in whom cardiac tamponade secondary to a loculated pericardial effusion was the presenting symptom of SLE.
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Topaloğlu et al. (2005) studied this question. Systemic lupus erythematosus can rarely present initially as cardiac tamponade secondary to a loculated pericardial effusion in young male patients.
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