Key result
Clinically inactive rheumatoid arthritis rarely presents with cardiac tamponade.
Highlights a rare presentation of cardiac tamponade in a patient with inactive rheumatoid arthritis.
Consider tamponade in RA despite inactive disease; case reports leave incidence and predictors open.
A 56-year-old woman with definite rheumatoid arthritis developed cardiac tamponade while her disease was both clinically and serologically inactive. To our knowledge such a complication has been reported only once previously.
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Sanchez-García et al. (1984) studied this question. Clinically and serologically inactive rheumatoid arthritis can rarely be complicated by cardiac tamponade, as demonstrated in a 56-year-old woman.