Acute right-sided heart failure due to hemorrhage into a pericardial cyst

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 845-847

  Borges, Adrian C ^a   Gellert, Klaus ^b   Dietel, Manfred ^b   Baumann, Gert ^b   Witt, Christian ^b  

^a Division of Pneumology   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYST; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOSCOPY; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL CYST; THORACOSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0030964065     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(96)01373-2     Document Type: Article

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