E-mail: [email protected] Introduction. The use of perfluorocarbon liquid (PFCL) for short-term tamponade can broaden retinal detachment surgery indications and improve outcomes. However, there is no common opinion regarding the effect of PFCL on the functional state of the retina. It is relevant to compare the effect of PFCL and light silicone oil (SO). Purpose was to study the effect of 30 day PF...

BACKGROUND Cardiac tamponade is a life-threatening state that complicates various medical conditions. The contemporary interventional era may have led to changes in clinical characteristics, causes and outcomes of cardiac tamponade. METHODS We investigated all patients diagnosed with cardiac tamponade, based on clinical and echocardiographic findings, at a single medical center between the ye...

Sanyal, Shyamal K., Kaur, Inder, Hooja, Vijaya, Thapar, Mohinder, K., and Vaishnava, Sarla (1970). Archives ofDisease in Childhood, 45, 198. Staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade in children. Six children with acute staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade are presented. In any patient with staphylococcal infection, the sudden onset of dyspnoea, tachycardia, tachypnoea, d...

Postoperative bleeding and tamponade are considered major complications after implantation of left ventricular assist devices. Firstly, 40% of patients supported by ventricular assist devices experience early postoperative bleeding, and 20% developed tamponade requiring re-exploration. Secondly, we present a case of a patient with tamponade, on temporary left ventricular assist device (LVAD) su...

Classic clinical findings have been described for tamponade. However, these findings are often obvious only when the patient is unstable due to tamponade. Ideally, tamponade is diagnosed early, when the patient suffers no more than dyspnea, weakness, or perhaps right heart failure. It is common to attribute respiratory symptoms (e.g., dyspnea on exertion) to a more common condition such as hear...

Acute heart failure was produced by cardiac tamponade in unsplenectomized and splencctomized dogs. The results indicate that splenic contraction was entirely responsible for the rise in hematocrit observed following tamponade in the unsplenectomized dogs. A fall in the hematocrit values of the splencctomized dogs and a reduction in total plasma proteins of both groups indicates an increase in p...

Bladder carcinoma is the fourth most common cancer in men, however cardiac metastases from the bladder are exceedingly rare. There have been 5 documented cases of transitional cell carcinoma causing cardiac tamponade. There have been 3 documented cases of urothelial carcinoma presenting as cardiac tamponade with positive cytology.1e3 We will discuss a case in which pericardial effusion with tam...

We evaluated the recovery of cardiovascular function after transient cardiogenic shock. Cardiac tamponade was performed for 1 h and post-shock data were collected in 5 domestic large white female pigs (43 +/- 5 kg) for 6 h. The control group (N = 5) was observed for 6 h after 1 h of resting. During 1 h of cardiac tamponade, experimental animals evolved a low perfusion status with a higher lacta...

AIM To report anatomic and visual outcomes following silicone oil removal in a cohort of patients with complex retinal detachment, to determine association between duration of tamponade and outcomes and to compare patients with oil removed and those with oil in situ in terms of demographic, surgical and visual factors. METHODS We reported a four years retrospective case series of 143 patients...