Clinical clues to the causes of large pericardial effusions

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 95-101

  Sagristà Sauleda, Jaume ^a   Mercé, Jordi ^a   Permanyer Miralda, Gaietà ^a   Soler Soler, Jordi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 0342571636     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(00)00459-9     Document Type: Article

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