Localized pericardial tamponade: Difficult echocardiographic diagnosis of a rare complication after cardiac surgery

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1220-1223

  Ionescu, Adrian ^a,b   Wilde, Peter ^a   Karsch, Karl R ^a  

^a BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035205926     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2001.115620     Document Type: Article

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