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apical four chambers view showing a circumferential pericardial effusion with collapse of the right ventricle in diastole (white arrow); the surface of the heart has a shaggy appearance, with frond-like structures extending to the parietal pericardium, this appearance is typical of tuberculous pericardial effusion
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Echocardiogram showed a large circumferential pericardial effusion with right ventricular diastolic collapse and marked variation in tricuspid and mitral inflow suggestive of cardiac tamponade (Figure 1).
apical four chambers view showing the absence of re-accumulation of pericardial effusion
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Follow-up and outcomes: a follow-up echocardiography after two weeks did not show re-accumulation of the pericardial fluid (Figure 2).