A 44-year-old woman with a history of factor V Leiden deficiency and recurrent pulmonary emboli was diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) three weeks prior presented to her local ED with severe chest pain . She was found to have a large hemorrhagic pericardial effusion by cardiac MRI with echocardiographic signs of tamponade . She underwent the creation of a pericardial window and was treated with colchicine with improvement in symptoms.
Index: cardiac tamponade, covid, covid and heart, covid pericarditis, covid-19, hemorrhagic pericardial effusion, hemorrhagic pericarditis, mri cardiac, pericardial effusion, viral pericarditis