Cardiac tamponade following pericarditis 18 days after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 595-597

  Lambert, T ^a   Steinwender, C ^a   Leisch, F ^a   Hofmann, R ^a  

^a KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HEMOGLOBIN; PHENPROCOUMON; PREDNISOLONE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; BLEEDING; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LETTER; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PULMONARY VEIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEDATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; PERICARDITIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957983144     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-010-0174-2     Document Type: Letter

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