Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of significant pericardial effusions following cardiothoracic surgery and outcomes of echo- guided pericardiocentesis for management: Mayo Clinic experience, 1979-1998

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Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 322-331

  Tsang, Teresa S M ^a   Barnes, Marion E ^a   Hayes, Sharonne N ^a   Freeman, William K ^a   Dearani, Joseph A ^a   Osborn Butler, Sara L ^a   Seward, James B ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac tamponade; Echo guided pericardiocentesis; Postoperative pericardial effusions; Two dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CHILD; DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; PARADOXICAL PULSE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDIOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032815120     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.116.2.322     Document Type: Article

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