Cardiac tamponade masquerading as headache: A diagnostic conundrum.

Vipin Dulam Vladimir Lakhter Mohammed Abul Kashem Yoshiya Toyoda Suresh Keshavamurthy

Published in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2020)

Cardiac tamponade and its protean presentations are well documented. Tamponade presenting after recent cardiac surgery in a patient on anticoagulation is not unknown. However, severe headache as a presenting feature of tamponade is not documented. We describe how one can be misled into investigating causes of headache while the real cause, tamponade, lies hidden.

Keyphrases

cardiac surgery
case report
machine learning
acute kidney injury
atrial fibrillation
venous thromboembolism
early onset
deep learning
heart failure
drug induced