Key result
Cholesterol pericarditis presents as massive, asymptomatic pericardial effusion with impending tamponade.
Why the study?
Cholesterol pericarditis is a rare condition characterized by large, chronic cholesterol-rich pericardial effusions often presenting with heart failure symptoms.
Highlights a rare presentation of cholesterol pericarditis as an asymptomatic massive effusion with impending tamponade.
Alerts clinicians to tamponade risk despite absent symptoms; leaves open optimal management of cholesterol pericarditis.
Cholesterol pericarditis is a rare condition characterized by a large, chronic cholesterol-rich pericardial effusion that often manifests with symptoms of heart failure. We report a case of an asymptomatic 51-year-old man with a massive cholesterol-rich pericardial effusion with echocardiographic evidence of impending tamponade. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)
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Khawaja et al. (2022) studied this question. Cholesterol pericarditis presented as a massive, asymptomatic pericardial effusion with echocardiographic evidence of impending tamponade in a 51-year-old man.
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