'Tamponade' following cardiac surgery: Terminology and echocardiography may both mislead

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1156-1160

  Price, Susanna ^a   Prout, Jeremy ^a   Jaggar, Siân I ^a   Gibson, Derek G ^a   Pepper, John R ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Echocardiography; Tamponade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 8444226317     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2004.08.020     Document Type: Article

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