Cardiac tamponade revisited: A postmortem look at a cautionary case

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347-351

  Ariyarajah, Vignendra ^a,b,e   Spodick, David H ^b,c,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma complications; Cardiac tamponade diagnosis etiology physiopathology therapy; Echocardiography, Doppler; Heart physiopathology; Hemodynamic processes; Pericardial effusion complications diagnosis etiology therapy; Pericardiocentesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARREST; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORACOCENTESIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LACTATES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PERICARDIAL WINDOW TECHNIQUES; PERICARDIUM;

EID: 35848939367     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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