Clayton County State Court jurors returned a $27.5 million verdict against a Riverdale hospital implicated in a patient's ...

An important part of preventive healthcare, some heart health screening tests may start around age 20. Other tests may not be needed until you are older. Routine heart health screenings are an ...

Blood cultures confirmed MSSA bacteremia, and imaging revealed loculated pericardial effusion with features consistent with constrictive pericarditis. Pericardiocentesis revealed MSSA-positive serous ...

Blood cultures confirmed MSSA bacteremia, and imaging revealed loculated pericardial effusion with features consistent with constrictive pericarditis. Pericardiocentesis revealed MSSA-positive serous ...

What is a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE)? A transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) uses echocardiography to assess the structure and function of the heart. During the procedure, a transducer (like ...

if needed, excess pericardial fluid can be removed from the pericardial space for diagnosis, to rule out infection, by using a syringe (pericardiocentesis). as a further step, other tests may be ...

There exists a need for new pacing techniques that could reduce intraventricular and atrioventricular dyssynchrony by providing a more physiological pattern of ventricular electrical activation, with ...

3 Patients with cardiac tamponade should undergo urgent therapeutic pericardiocentesis. Pericardiocentesis should also be considered for patients with large effusions without tamponade, in the rare ...