Gokula, R.M.; Gupta, A.K.; Shirley, Suzanne E.; Coard, Kathleen C.; Ramphal, Paul S.
Author Affiliation, Ana.
Department of Pathology
Scleroderma with cardiac tamponade, hyperthyroidism and incidental papillary thyroid carcinoma
West Indian Medical Journal
Date of Publication
Cardiac tamponade and malignancy are associated with a poor prognosis in Progressive Systemic Sclerosis (PSS). We present the case of a 31-year-old African-Jamaican woman with PSS and a thyroid neoplasm who presented with cardiac tamponade requiring pericardiocentesis. Despite the presence of two poor prognostic markers, she has had a favourable postoperative course.....