An unusual procedure for the treatment of simultaneous pericardial and pleural effusions;Una procedura insolita per il trattamento dei versamenti pericardico e pleurico

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 796-798

  De Divitiis, Marcello ^a,b   Dialetto, Giovanni ^a   Covino, Franco Enrico ^a   Caruso, Aurelio ^a   Cotrufo, Maurizio ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Pericarditis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PARADOXICAL PULSE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

DRAINAGE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0032810581     PISSN: 00465968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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