Indah Pratiwi1, Hasrayati Agustina2,Erwan Martanto3 1Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran 2Departement of Pathology Anatomy,UniversitasPadjadjaran/Dr. HasanSadikin General Hospital Bandung 3Departement of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, UniversitasPadjadjaran/Dr. HasanSadikin General Hospital Bandung

Abstract

Background: Pericardial effusion is a common condition in clinical practice. Manifestation of effusion depends on its causes and the underlying diseases as well as influenced by patient’s characteristics and geographical location. This study was conducted to determine the characteristic of pericardial effusion patient based on age, gender, cytological and clinical diagnosis. Method: The study was conducted using descriptive retrospective method. The data collected was medicalrecord ofpericardial effusion patients for 5 years from 1st January 2009 to 31st December 2013. This study was conducted in SMF Pathology Anatomy Dr. HasanSadikin General Hospital Bandung. Fifty four cases were collected as samples through total sampling technique. The variables were age, gender, cytological diagnosis and clinical diagnosis. Results: Pericardial effusion mostly occurred in 21-30 years old. Pericardial effusion is more common in man than woman. Based on the type of cytology, the most common pericardial effusion was non-specific inflammation. The most common clinical features of patients is tuberculous infection. Conclusions: Pericardial effusion frequently occurred in 21-30 years old. Based on gender, pericardial effusion is not significantly distributed between male and female. Basesd on cytological diagnosis, pericardial effusion is mostly diagnosed as nonspesific inflammation type. The manjority of clinical feature of pericardial effusion is tuberculosis infection.

Keywords: age, clinical diagnosis, gender, pericardial effusion, type of cytological diagnosis