Cardiac tamponade associated with hypothyroidism in Rwandan child-Acase Report

The author reports the case of a child who presented with huge pericardial effusion complicated to cardiac tamponade secondary to primary hypothyroidism. The most known etiologies of cardiac tamponade were not confirmed, and hypothyroidism was an exclusion diagnosis. Due to the severity of cardiac...

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Main Author: N. Nyirimanzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC)/Rwanda Health Communication Center 2019-12-01
Series:Rwanda Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.bioline.org.br/pdf?rw19019