title: Acute right-sided heart failure due to hemorrhage into a pericardial cyst.
abstract: This is a description of a rare complication of a pericardial cyst with spontaneous internal hemorrhage and following tamponade. The noninvasive diagnosis was done by transesophageal echocardiography and computed thoracic tomography. The cyst was thoracoscopically removed and pathologically examined. This case demonstrates a rare but important and life-threatening complication of mostly asymptomatic pericardial cysts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Abdominal and Visceral Surgery, Medical School (Charité) of the Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Borges
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gellert
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dietel
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Baumann
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Witt
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004724:Endoscopy; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008476:Mediastinal Cyst / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000209:etiology*