Patient with Purulent Pericardial Effusion Revealing Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma

Karim Badaoui (Ibn Rochd University Hospital Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco)
Mounia El Mourid (Ibn Rochd University Hospital Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco)
Hatim Aminezahidi (Ibn Rochd University Hospital Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco)
Haja Rbendahou (Ibn Rochd University Hospital Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco)
Fatima Zaha Talhi (Ibn Rochd University Hospital Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco)
Halima Anniche (Ibn Rochd University Hospital Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco)
Nacer Drighil (Ibn Rochd University Hospital Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco)
Rachida Habbal (Ibn Rochd University Hospital Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco)

International Journal of Cardiovascular Practice
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Bacterial pericarditis is a rapidly progressive infection sown with heavy mortality. It usually occurs as a secondary infection to either a contiguous or hematogenous spread from a distant focus of infection. The primary involvement of the pericardium without evidence of underlying infection disease elsewhere, is sporadic. We present a unique case of a 69 -year-old patient who was diagnosed as having purulent acute bacterial pericarditis caused by Streptococcus pneumonia, revealing an underlying squamous cell lung carcinoma in the cardiology department of IBN ROCHD University hospital of Casablanca.