Introduction:
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a current pandemic outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus now called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The commonest cardiac complications include acute myocardial injury, arrhythmias, acute myocarditis and severe left ventricular dysfunction.1 Conversely, reports of pericarditis and pericardial effusion are rare.
A large pericardial effusion due COVID-19 has been reported in a 41 woman in Saudi Arabia.2 Besides, cardiac tamponade secondary to COVID-19, 3 life-threatening cardiac tamponade complicating myopericarditis in COVID-19, 4acute myopericarditis with pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade in a patient with COVID-19, 5 and a case of acute pericarditis and cardiac tamponade in a patient with COVID-19 have all been reported. 6
Hereby, we describe a case of acute pericarditis and pericardial effusion in a COVID-19 patient.