A recent systematic review identified only 47 cases of hypothyroid cardiac tamponade worldwide between 2000 and 2023, with ...
Primary mediastinal embryonal carcinoma is an exceptionally rare and aggressive extragonadal germ cell tumor, comprising less than 2% of mediastinal germ cell neoplasms. Cardiovascular complications, ...
More than one third of patients with PCI-related cardiac tamponade develop the first hemodynamic signs several hours after PCI. These late-presenting cases are often a diagnostic challenge at the ...
"It wasn’t until I developed a random blind spot in my eye that my mom took me to the ER. They ordered a head CT that caught ...
In connective tissue disorders, the incidence of pericardial disease and pericardial effusion can be up to 58%, and if untreated, it can lead to cardiac tamponade which can be fatal. Physicians must ...
Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain Dr J Soler-Soler, Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Pg. Vall d'Hebron 119-129, 08035 Barcelona, ...
This article reports the case of an adverse event of cardiac tamponade associated with central catheter peripheral insertion in a premature newborn. The approach was pericardial puncture, which ...
Correspondence to Dr Brian D Hoit, Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; bdh6{at}case.edu When pericardial fluid accumulates and ...
A 51-year-old female patient with a recent hospital admission reported to the emergency room (ER) with progressive worsening of fatigue, dyspnoea and chest discomfort. She had been recently admitted ...
Cardiac tamponade is most commonly caused by pericarditis, acute aortic dissection, or cardiac trauma / rupture. 1,2 Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) enables rapid diagnosis and t ...