Cardiac tamponade is life-threatening, slow or rapid compression of the heart due to the pericardial accumulation of fluid, pus, blood, clots, or gas, as a result of effusion, trauma, or rupture ...

Pericardial tamponade associated with central catheters is often lethal, unless promptly identified. We report our experience with two infants who suffered this complication but were successfully ...

Patients with clinically significant pericardial effusion or cardiac tamponade were identified. An extensive chart review was performed to determine age, gender, underlying diagnosis, type of ...

It needs urgent treatment. In people with cardiac tamponade, also known as pericardial tamponade, fluid or blood builds up between the heart and the sac that surrounds the heart. This sac is ...

The causes of pericardial penetration or fluid accumulation might include: Cardiac tamponade often has three signs your doctor can recognize. These signs are commonly known as Beck’s triad.

You are more likely to have symptoms when the effusion is large, develops quickly, or leads to cardiac tamponade. A pericardial effusion that develops into cardiac tamponade is a medical emergency ...

In the light of this, the following cases are presented to emphasize the variety of clinical manifestations of uremic pericardial tamponade. Case 1. R.S. (P.B.B.H. 2–99–93), a 43-year-old ...

However, patients with pericardial tamponade instead are in a state of obstructive shock and are extremely preload-dependent; they require significant volume resuscitation to maintain right heart ...

Fallouh Healthcare, a Birmingham-headquartered medical device innovator, has secured £305,050 in funding from Innovate UK via the Eureka Eurostars programme. The grant will support the final ...

Early removal of pericardial drains after cardiac tamponade complicating atrial fibrillation catheter ablation appears to be safe and effective, with patients monitored for ongoing bleeding ...

Cardiac tamponade can come on quickly, diagnosis is difficult and subjective, and it can be confused with other causes of heart failure.

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