Pericardial Effusion After Cardiac Surgery: Risk Factors, Patient Profiles, and Contemporary Management

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 112-118

  Ashikhmina, Elena A ^a   Schaff, Hartzell V ^a   Sinak, Lawrence J ^a   Li, Zhuo ^a   Dearani, Joseph A ^a   Suri, Rakesh M ^a   Park, Soon J ^a   Orszulak, Thomas A ^a   Sundt III, Thoralf M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76449115672     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.09.026     Document Type: Article

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