Cardiac metastases from a gynecological malignancy presenting with tamponade: A rare and potentially life threatening medical emergency

Cardiac malignancies are a rare occurrence and are usually metastatic and the common sources are lung, breast or hepatic but having a gynecological malignancy causing metastases to the heart is extremely rare and seldom described.We are describing the case description of a middle aged woman who was a known case of carcinoma cervix having received radiotherapy but had not been cured of her malignancy, and presented to us in pericardial tamponade which had occurred due to the malignancy having metastasized to her pericardium. The patient underwent therapeutic pericardiocentesis but the fluid kept on re-accumulating subsequent to which the patient was offered chemotherapy which she refused and finally succumbed in around four months. This case forms an interesting opportunity to recognize the fact that gynecological malignancies may metastasize to the heart which is of vital information to the cardiologists, oncologists and gynecologists who regularly come across cases with malignancies this might help in early recognition and correlation of the symptoms.