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Intracellular but not undetectable: A case of pericarditis.
IDCases
December 2024
Division of Public Health, Infectious Disease, and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
is a facultatively intracellular, gram-negative bacillus and a rare cause of infection in the United States. We report a case of a 45-year-old male who presented with ongoing fever, shortness of breath, and was found to have a pericardial effusion and pulmonic infiltrates due to . Though tularemia is classically associated with rabbits and rodents, we note the patient in our case had no clear infectious exposure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA rare journey of a thymoma: A case report.
Int J Surg Case Rep
January 2025
Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Nepal.
Introduction And Importance: Thymoma is the most common primary anterior mediastinal tumor in adults. Invasive thymomas infiltrate organs adjacent to the mediastinal pleura, including the lungs, great vessels, heart, pericardium, and diaphragm. Complete resection of invasive thymoma leads to a better prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrimary cardiac lymphoma: a clinicopathological study of 121 cases.
Front Oncol
January 2025
Department of Hematology, Linyi People's Hospital, Linyi, Shandong, China.
Background: Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is an exceedingly uncommon type of lymphoma that primarily affects the heart and/or pericardium, or manifests through cardiac symptoms due to myocardial infiltration. The infrequency of PCL, coupled with its non-specific clinical presentations, often complicates early diagnosis. This study aims to fill the existing gap in clinical knowledge regarding PCL by detailing a case of PCL and examining its clinical features, auxiliary examinations, treatment approaches, and prognostic outcomes, thereby facilitating early detection and enhancing patient care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiagnostic Role of Endoscopic Ultrasound in Cardiac Angiosarcoma.
JACC Case Rep
January 2025
Cardiology Department, Schoen Hospital Neustadt, Holstein, Germany.
Primary cardiac tumors are a rare disease, with 20% of the cases being malignant. Among them, angiosarcoma is characterized by a short clinical course and poor prognosis, even after surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. We present a 67-year-old woman diagnosed with a primary malignant tumor (angiosarcoma) infiltrating the right atrial myocardium.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA very rare phenotype of immunoglobulin G4-related disease that was manifested as constrictive pericarditis: a case report.
Eur Heart J Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyoto Chubu Medical Center, 25, Yagi-Ueno, Yagi-cho, Nantan City, Kyoto 629-0197, Japan.
Background: Constrictive pericarditis (CP) can arise from various causes, including post-operative degeneration, tuberculosis, and sequelae of pericarditis. Immunoglobulin (Ig) G4-related disease is a rare but recognized cause of CP. However, the specific mechanisms underlying these aetiologies and pathologies remain unclear.
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