Abstract:We report a case of a 68-year-old woman referred to our hospital after being diagnosed of acute coronary syndrome with ST elevation but no evidence of coronary stenosis amenable of percutaneous or surgical approach. She was transferred to our institution due to pericardial effusion with incipient haemodynamic compromise and under suspicion of contained cardiac rupture. Pericardial collection was shown in a rutine transthoracic echocardiogram study meanwhile the patient was recovering from coronary event in a d… Show more
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