primary pericardial mesothelioma: report of a patient and literature review

Malignant pericardial mesothelioma is a very rare tumoraccounting for 4% of all cardiac and pericardial tumors. we introduce a rare case of primary pericardial mesotheliomasince patients with mesothelioma mostly present with nonspecific symptomsand one-time diagnosis plays a major role in treatment. our patient is a 29-year-oldcaucasian man with a complaint of worsening dyspnea and weight loss over the prior three weeks. after transthoracic echocardiography and ct scan, the patient underwent open-heart surgery and biopsy was achieved. finally, the diagnosis of primary pericardial mesothelioma was confirmed.