Key result
Rheumatoid arthritis is linked to RV-compressing cardiac tumor with Brugada phenocopy and haemopericardium.
Why the study?
Haemopericardium is a rare complication in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, with limited reported cases involving Brugada-like ECG patterns.
Highlights a rare presentation of haemopericardium and a Brugada-like ECG pattern in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis.
Consider RA in unexplained haemopericardium with Brugada-like ECG; extends known cardiac manifestations but remains hypothesis-generating.
Haemopericardium is rare in rheumatoid arthritis. We report a case of pericardial fluid and tumour compressing the right ventricle with Brugada-like ECG pattern in rheumatoid arthritis. A 44 year old women who had rheumatoid arthritis for 10 years presented with dyspnoea. She was taking chloroquine …
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Tomcsányi et al. (2002) studied this question. Rheumatoid arthritis was associated with a rare presentation of haemopericardium and a right ventricle-compressing tumor resulting in a Brugada-like ECG pattern.
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