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Heart, lung & circulation · Jun 2009
Case ReportsIdiopathic chylothorax and chylopericardium resistant to conservative and surgical management.
- Mushahid Raza and Kevin Matar.
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Prince Charles Hospital, Australia. mushahid.raza@gmail.com
- Heart Lung Circ. 2009 Jun 1; 18 (3): 229-32.
AbstractSimultaneous 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.
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