DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2020.v08i03.013

Pages: 308-309

Low pressure tamponade is a rare entity and difficult to diagnose. We report in our observation concerning this pathology, a patient initially admitted for a surgical emergency, and in whom the initial assessment finds a field of immunosuppression, without germ isolated in the bacteriological examination of the pericardial fluid. This observation underlines the difficulty of diagnosing this form of tamponade as well as the interest of using transthoracic ultrasound as a first-line examination to guide the diagnosis in emergency situations.