Idiopathic chylothorax and chylopericardium resistant to conservative and surgical management.
Simultaneous idiopathic collection of chyle in the pericardial and pleural cavities is a rare phenomenon and to our knowledge it has been reported twice before [Torrington KG, Youkey JR. Simultaneous Idiopathic chylothorax and chylopericardium. South Med J 1981;74(March(3)):357-9; Kozielski J, Chylopericardium and chylothorax of unknown etiology. 1996]. There have been very few reported cases of chylopericardium presenting cardiac tamponade [Mehrotra S, Peeran NA, Bandyopadhyay A. Tex Heart Inst J 2006;33(2):249-53]. We report two cases of idiopathic pericardial and pleural effusions presenting cardiac tamponade resistant to conservative and surgical management.
Raza
Mushahid
M
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Prince Charles Hospital, Australia. mushahid.raza@gmail.com
Matar
Kevin
K
D000328:Adult; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology; D002916:Chylothorax / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed