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Pericardial Effusion with Cardiac Tamponade as a Form of Presentation of Primary Hypothyroidism

2002; Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC); Volume: 78; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0066-782x2002000600005

1678-4170

Acir Rachid, Leiber Carvalho Caum, Ana Paula Trentini, Carlos Augusto Fischer, Denis Antônio Jacques Antonelli, Rafael Pereira Hagemann,

Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma

The authors describe a case of pericardial effusion accompanied by cardiac tamponade caused by primary hypothyroidism. Diagnosis was made by exclusion, because other causes of cardiac tamponade are more frequent. Emergency treatment of cardiac tamponade is pericardiocentesis (with possible pericardial window), and, after stabilization, performance of hormonal reposition therapy with L-thyroxin.