The relationship of right atrial inversion, a previously undescribed cross-sectional echocardiographic sign, to the presence of cardiac tamponade was examined. We studied 127 patients with moderate or large pericardial effusions. Cardiac tamponade was present in 19 and absent in 104. Four patients with equivocal tamponade were excluded from analysis. Right atrial inversion was present in 19 of ...

Background: Pericardial involvement, with subsequent effusion and cardiac tamponade, may be a metastatic manifestation of an advanced lung carcinoma. These neoplastic pericardial effusions are usually asymptomatic and often times being diagnosed at an autopsy. We report on a 44-year-old woman who presented with cardiac tamponade and further investigations revealed a metastasis from the lung can...

INTRODUCTION This study aims to report the safety and effi cacy of the combined use of 70% Densiron®-68 and 30% polydimethysiloxane as a temporary vitreous substitute after pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) in selected cases of retinal detachment with superior and inferior retinal breaks. MATERIAL AND METHODS Fifty consecutive eyes of 50 patients affected by complicated retinal detachment with reti...

PURPOSE The presented case raises questions regarding the favorable scheduling of planned postoperative care and the ideal observation interval to decide for reoperations in macular hole surgery. Furthermore a discussion about the use of short- and long-acting gas tamponades in macular hole surgery is encouraged. METHODS We present an interventional case report and a short review of the perti...

Aim. To compare pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with silicone tamponade or gas (Groups Ia and Ib) and a new modified Ando plombe equipped with a fiber optic light (Group II) for cases with macular hole retinal detachment (MHRD) in high myopic eyes (axial length > 26 mm). Methods. A prospective interventional randomized case series included 60 eyes (20 in each group). Successful outcome was consider...

We retrospectively evaluated a heavy silicone oil (HSO) as a long-term intraocular endotamponade agent to treat complicated RD by inferior PVR in 25 eyes of 25 patients. Patients underwent PPV and injection of Oxane HD as an internal tamponade agent. A comparison of preoperative and postoperative BCVA at month 1, month 6, and last visit was made in the group in which HSO was removed and in the ...

Bacterial pericarditis can be considered a rare pathology, usually associated with cardiac procedures and, to lesser extent, immunosuppression and chronic diseases. The importance of its knowledge lies in the fact that mortality reach up 100% untreated patients. Once diagnosed, pericardiocentesis administration intravenous antimicrobial therapy are mandatory for prevention complications, which ...

Acute cardiac tamponade requires urgent diagnosis and treatment. Spontaneous hemopericardium leading to cardiac tamponade as an initial manifestation of essential thrombocythemia (ET) has never been reported in the literature. We report a case of a 72-year-old Caucasian female who presented with spontaneous hemopericardium and tamponade requiring emergent pericardiocentesis. The patient was sub...

PURPOSE To report on the outcomes of vitrectomy and sulfur hexafluoride (SF(6)) gas tamponade for idiopathic macular holes with 2 days of face-down positioning. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a prospective, nonrandomized, observational sequential case-series study on 23 consecutive patients receiving macular hole surgery using 20% SF(6) and advised to stay in a face-down position for 2 days po...

left ventricular free wall rupture is responsible for up to 10% of in-hospital deaths following myocardial infarction. it is mainly associated with posterolateral myocardial infarction, and its antemortem diagnosis is rarely made. one of the medical complications of myocardial infarction is the rupture of the free wall, which occurs more frequently in the anterolateral wall in hypertensives, wo...