Bouraoui Hatem, Trimeche Besma, Mahdhaoui Abdallah, Ernez-Hajri Samia, Jeridi Gouider, Ammar Habib
Service de Cardiologie, Hôpital Farhat Hached, 4000 Sousse, Tunisie.
Rev Med Suisse Romande. 2003 Nov;123(11):713-4.
The frequency of pericardial involvement in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is high but usually was asymptomatic and cardiac tamponnade was exceptional. We report a case of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) revealed by cardiac tamponnade. This case illustrate the value of transthoracic echocardiography in the diagnosis of cardiac tamponnade in systémic sclerosis.
