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Giant calcific pericardial cyst: certainly unexpected during primary percutaneous coronary intervention
Author(s) -
Güvenç Tolga Sinan,
Hayıroğlu Mert İlker,
Gümüşdağ Ayça,
Ekmekçi Ahmet,
Erer Hatice Betül,
Keskin Muhammed,
Eren Mehmet
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/echo.13315
Subject(s) - medicine , right coronary artery , cardiology , myocardial infarction , percutaneous coronary intervention , radiology , heart failure , superior vena cava , coronary angiography , surgery
Pericardial cyst is a rare congenital anomaly that is usually diagnosed during evaluation for right‐sided heart failure. We report a 50‐year‐old man with a primary diagnosis of ST ‐segment elevation myocardial infarction at admission, whose emergent angiography revealed a calcific mass close to right coronary artery. Further analysis of the mass with computed tomography and three‐dimensional echocardiography revealed a giant pericardial cyst causing partial obstruction of superior vena cava. Unlike previous cases reported, the patient had no symptoms compatible with right‐sided heart failure.