“…Risk factors include diabetes mellitus, other active infection (eg, endocarditis or pneumonia), immunosuppression, and having a preexisting pericardial effusion [ 2 ]. PA occurs in patients with immunosuppression as secondary complication, although since the advent of antibiotic therapy, the incidence of PA has decreased [ 3 ]. It usually presents as generalized involvement of the pericardium, but here we report a case with localized massive staphylococcal pericardial abscess [ 4 , 5 ].…”