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Background: Right atrial masses associated with pericardial effusion represent a rare but clinically relevant diagnostic challenge, requiring a multimodality imaging approach to differentiate between neoplastic, inflammatory, and infectious etiologies. Case Presentation A 56-year-old woman presented to the ED with progressive dyspnea for one month. In the week before admission,…

INTRODUCTION: Constrictive pericarditis is a pericardial syndrome characterized by pericardial rigidity, with possible thickening and calcification, leading to impaired diastolic filling. CASE REPORT: A 55-year-old man with a medical history of systemic arterial hypertension, active smoking, previous cocaine abuse, and seropositive rheumatoid arthritis. The patient had been complaining of…

Introduction The ESC guidelines recommend high-dose NSAIDs combined with colchicine as first-line treatment for acute pericarditis. However, these recommendations are mainly based on studies conducted on young, clinically stable patients, while frail elderly patients are underrepresented. Case Presentation An 87-year-old man with multiple comorbidities, chronic renal failure and recent…

Miliary tuberculosis (MT) is a life-threatening condition resulting from massive lympho- hematogenous dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a focal lesion ruptured into the blood or lymphatic flow. It is commonly found in children, young adults and HIV-infected patients. Its diagnosis may be very challenging due to clinical polymorphism and…

BACKGROUND Recurrent pericarditis (RP) has traditionally been classified as idiopathic in most patients. Over the last decade, however, accumulating evidence suggests that a subset of RP is driven by underlying genetic and autoinflammatory mechanisms. Variants affecting innate immunity pathways have been increasingly reported, particularly in patients with early disease…