Abstract
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.
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