Pericardial Tamponade Two Years after Central Venous Catheter Implantation in a Patient with Breast Cancer: A Case Report
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pericardial tamponade, central venous catheter, cardiac MRI, late gadolinium enhancementAbstract
We report a rare and diagnostically challenging case of pericardial tamponade in a breast cancer patient, treated two years earlier. Echocardiogram and an enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a large mass in the right pericardium with indistinct borders. A positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scan showed no uptake of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-GDP) by the mass. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with late gadolinium enhancement confirmed no signal enhancement within the mass and a clear border, decisively ruling out malignancy. This case highlights the importance of late gadolinium enhancement in this diagnostically challenging case and explores the pericardial tamponade development mechanism.
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