Attention! Cardiac tamponade may be caused by underlying Castleman's disease

Hilmi Atay; Engin Kelkitli; Muhammed Okuyucu; Levent Yildiz; Mehmet Turgut

doi:10.1177/0218492313513772

Attention! Cardiac tamponade may be caused by underlying Castleman's disease

Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2015 May;23(4):455-7. doi: 10.1177/0218492313513772. Epub 2013 Nov 26.

Authors

Hilmi Atay¹, Engin Kelkitli², Muhammed Okuyucu³, Levent Yildiz⁴, Mehmet Turgut⁵

Affiliations

¹ Van Training and Research Hospital Department of Hematology, Van, Turkey.
² Erzurum Region Training and Research Hospital Department of Hematology, Erzurum, Turkey [email protected].
³ 19 Mayis University Medical School Department of Internal Medicine, Samsun, Turkey.
⁴ 19 Mayis University Medical School Department of Pathology, Samsun, Turkey.
⁵ 19 Mayis University Medical School Department of Hematology, Samsun, Turkey.

PMID: 24887912
DOI: 10.1177/0218492313513772

Abstract

Castleman's disease is a rarely observed lymphoproliferative disease. In the literature, various signs and symptoms of the disease have been reported; one of these is secondary cardiac tamponade. We describe the case of a 41-year-old man who developed cardiac tamponade during examination, and who was later diagnosed with Castleman's disease, based on his lymph node biopsies.

Keywords: Biopsy; cardiac tamponade; diagnosis; differential; giant lymph node hyperplasia.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Biopsy
Cardiac Tamponade / etiology*
Castleman Disease / complications*
Castleman Disease / diagnosis*
Castleman Disease / pathology
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Lymph Nodes / pathology*
Male