Has the clinical presentation and clinician's index of suspicion of cardiac tamponade changed over the past decade?

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 237-241

  Gandhi, Sachin ^a   Schneider, Avi ^a   Mohiuddin, Syed ^a   Han, Hui ^a   Patel, Ayan R ^a   Pandian, Natesa G ^a   Kuvin, Jeffrey T ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac tamponade; Echocardiography; Pericardial effusion; Pericardium

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIUM; PERICARDIUM DRAINAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX DRAINAGE;

CARDIAC TAMPONADE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS;

EID: 40149092374     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00592.x     Document Type: Article

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