Unexpected Cause of Pericarditis: Chest Teratoma

Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2022 Mar:36:166-168. doi: 10.1016/j.carrev.2021.08.022. Epub 2021 Aug 26.

Abstract

Mediastinal teratoma rarely causes pericarditis. We report a case of a 22-year-old young female admitted to the emergency department for inspiratory chest pain and fever with severe pericardial effusion, unexepectable the cause of pericarditis was a mediastinal teratoma.

Keywords: Pericarditis; Teratoma: chest.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms* / complications
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
  • Pericardial Effusion* / diagnostic imaging
  • Pericardial Effusion* / etiology
  • Pericardial Effusion* / surgery
  • Pericarditis* / diagnostic imaging
  • Pericarditis* / etiology
  • Pericarditis* / therapy
  • Teratoma* / complications
  • Teratoma* / diagnostic imaging
  • Teratoma* / surgery
  • Thorax
  • Young Adult