Malignant Pericardial Effusion, or Fluid Around the Heart Due to Cancer

Dipesh Uprety; Howard Jack West

doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.4500

Malignant Pericardial Effusion, or Fluid Around the Heart Due to Cancer

JAMA Oncol. 2024 Jan 1;10(1):148. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.4500.

Authors

Dipesh Uprety¹, Howard Jack West²

Affiliations

¹ Thoracic Oncology, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan.
² Medical Oncology, City of Hope Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, Duarte, California.

PMID: 37971724
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.4500

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This JAMA Oncology Patient Page describes the accumulation of excess fluid around the heart caused by cancer, known as malignant pericardial effusion.

MeSH terms

Heart Neoplasms* / complications
Heart Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
Heart Neoplasms* / pathology
Humans
Pericardial Effusion* / diagnostic imaging
Pericardial Effusion* / etiology
Pericardial Effusion* / pathology
Pleural Neoplasms*
Thorax / pathology