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European Journal of Echocardiography 2006 7(6):460-462; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2005.07.010
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Copyright © 2005, The European Society of Cardiology

Systemic lupus erythematosus: An unusual cause of cardiac tamponade in a young man

Serkan Topaloglua,*, Dursun Arasa, Kumral Erguna, Hakan Altaya, Omer Alyana and Ahmet Akgulb

aTürkiye Yüksek Ihtisas Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey
bTürkiye Yüksek Ihtisas Hospital, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ankara, Turkey

Received 14 March 2005; received in revised form 16 July 2005; accepted after revision 28 July 2005.

* Corresponding author. Türkiye Yüksek Ihtisas Hospital, Akpinar mah. 23. cad. 10/22 Dikmen, Ankara, Turkey. Tel.: +903123061133; fax: +903123124120. topaloglus{at}yahoo.com


  Abstract

Although pericarditis and pericardial effusion are common cardiac complications of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), cardiac tamponade is a very rare initial manifestation of this disease. We describe a case of a young male patient in whom cardiac tamponade secondary to a loculated pericardial effusion was the presenting symptom of SLE.

Keywords: Cardiac tamponade; Systemic lupus erythematosus


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