Cardiac tamponade occurs when a pericardial effusion exerts a significant amount of pressure externally on the heart, resulting in impaired right ventricular filling eventually causing decreased ...

Pericardial effusions are best diagnosed by echocardiography, which is validated to estimate the size and location, and determine if hemodynamic compromise is present causing cardiac tamponade.

Acute pericardial disease (acute pericarditis and cardiac tamponade) was the first manifestation of previously unknown malignancies in 18 out of 450 patients (4.0%) and lung cancer was the most ...

of mercury. There were, however, individual variations in technic in the preparation, positioning and maintenance of the balloon tamponade. The Sengstaken-Blakemore tube was employed on 81 ...

Cardiac tamponade causes a build-up of a large amount of fluid in your pericardium, or the protective sac of fluid around your heart. This fluid build-up is called pericardial effusion.

Noninfectious pericarditis mainly includes autoimmune systemic diseases, post-pericardiotomy syndromes and neoplastic pericardial disease. Treatment should be targeted to the cause, but remains ...