Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of patients with significant pericardial effusion requiring pericardiocentesis

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 66-70

  Quraishi, Ata Ur Rehman ^a   Khan, Arif Anis ^a   Kazmi, Khawar Abbas ^a   Najaf, Syed Muhammad ^a   Basir, M Najib ^a   Shafquat, Azam ^a   Jafary, Fahim ^a   Dhakan, Sajid ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MALE; PAKISTAN; PARADOXICAL PULSE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 16444384671     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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