Cardiac tamponade in breast cancer patient as a manifestation of the recurrence

Abstract

Cardiac tamponade is life-threatening state caused by fluid accumulation in the pericardial sac and consequently by increase of intrapericardial pressure. In neoplastic disease pericardiac involvement which manifests clinical symptoms as cardiac tamponade occurred uncommon and  can be cancer first symptom or develop in it’s terminal period. The most common neoplastic cause of the pericardial effusion are metastatic tumors, especially from lung and breast cancer. In this case report cardiac tamponade was the first symptom of breast cancer recurrence and then occurred again during systemic treatment as the symptom of disease progression.