Pericardial effusion with tamponade – an uncommon presentation leading to the diagnosis of eosinophilic granulomatosis polyangiitis: A case report

Table 1 PubMed literature review of case reports of eosinophilic granulomatosis polyangiitis with cardiac tamponade

Patient	Age	Sex	Histological diagnosis	Other cardiac involvement	Other organ involvement		Eosinophil in pericardial fluids	Treatment	ANCA	Ref.
1	66	M	Pericardium	None	Lung	Numerous	Prednisolone		Negative	Agard et al[3]
2	73	F	Pericardium	Myocarditis	Nerve	N/A	Prednisolone, cyclophosphamide		Negative	Agard et al[3]
3	73	F	Skin	None	Skin, colon, nerve		Numerous	Prednisolone	Negative	Yano et al[4]
4	44	F	Skin	Myocarditis	Lung, skin		None	Prednisolone, azathioprine	N/A	Hasley et al[11]
5	30	M	Myocardium	Myocarditis	Nerve		Numerous	Prednisolone	Negative	Uren et al[12]
6	56	F	Pericardium	None	Skin		N/A	Prednisolone	N/A	Sharma et al[13]
7	12	M	Skin	Myocarditis	Lung, skin, nerve		N/A	Prednisolone	Positive	Wang et al[14]
8	50	F	Pericardium	None	Lung, eye		77% of white cells	Prednisolone	Negative	Keefe et al[15]
9	59	M	Skin	None	Skin, ear, nerve		0.4% of white cells	Prednisolone	Negative	Ovadia et al[16]
10	57	M	N/A	None	Eye, nerve		30% of white cells	Prednisolone	Negative	Suganuma et al[17]
11	31	F	Pericardium	None	Gall bladder		Numerous	Prednisolone	Negative	Lenders et al[18]
12	57	M	N/A	Myocarditis	N/A		Numerous	Prednisolone	N/A	Gerlach et al[19]
13	56	M	Pericardium	None	None		N/A	Prednisolone	Negative	David et al[20]
14		F	Pericardium, Lung	None	Lung, Nerve		25% of white cells	Prednisone, mepolizumab	Negative	Our Case

ANCA: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody.