Extrinsic compression of the heart by tumor masquerading as cardiac tamponade.
A patient with known intrathoracic tumor presented with findings suggestive of cardiac tamponade. At cardiac catheterization, the entire heart was displaced superiorly and anteriorly by the tumor mass, and this accounted for the observed cardiac hemodynamics, in the absence of discernible pericardial effusion.
D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000175:diagnosis; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology