Drowning in the Effusion: Cardiac Tamponade as Presenting Feature of Lymphoma in a Young Boy

Abstract

Cardiac tamponade in children has multiple etiological factors such as infection, post-inflammatory, malignancy, or blunt trauma. Detailed evaluation of the accompanying clinical features along with laboratory investigations and imaging help in appropriate diagnosis and management. We describe a case where cardiac tamponade manifested as the first presentation of childhood lymphoma but was mistaken as post-traumatic hemopericardium and tamponade.

Keywords

• blunt trauma
• cardiac tamponade
• lymphoma
• pediatric