Cardiac cysts generally refer to pericardial cysts, which are mainly treated by surgery, please follow the doctor’s instructions.
Pericardial cysts can occur in any part of the pericardium, most patients have no clinical symptoms, a few patients have palpitation, shortness of breath, chest tightness, chest pain, cough, edema and other symptoms due to pericardial cysts compression of the heart, mediastinal nerve and so on.
Generally, asymptomatic pericardial cysts do not require surgical treatment, and doctors may recommend surgical resection, such as open thoracic surgery, thoracoscopic surgery, etc., for patients with clinical manifestations.
Most of the pericardial cysts have no obvious symptoms and are not easy to detect. They may undergo secondary changes, or rupture, or press on the surrounding tissues and organs, etc. to cause discomfort, and in severe cases, they may be fatal. Therefore, once diagnosed with cardiac cysts, it should be actively followed by standardized treatment to avoid disease progression.