The syndrome of cardiac tamponade with "small" pericardial effusion

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 321-327

  Saito, Yuji ^a   Donohue, Amanda ^c   Attai, Sherwin ^a   Vahdat, Arash ^a   Brar, Ramandeep ^a   Handapangoda, Iroshan ^b   Chandraratna, P Anthony ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

^b VA LONG BEACH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac tamponade; Echocardiography; Pericardial effusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD CLOTTING; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UREMIA;

ADULT; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION;

EID: 40149089572     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00567.x     Document Type: Review

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