Pseudo cardiac tamponade in the setting of excess pericardial fat
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Pseudo cardiac tamponade in the setting of excess pericardial fat
Cardiac tamponade is the phenomenon of hemodynamic compromise caused by a pericardial effusion. Following a myocardial infarction, the most common causes of pericardial fluid include early pericarditis, Dressler's syndrome, and hemopericardium secondary to a free wall rupture. On transthoracic echocardiography, pericardial fluid appears as an echo-free space in between the visceral and parietal...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cardiovascular Ultrasound
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1476-7120
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-7-3