STUDY OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of low voltage with PR-segment and ST-T wave changes in determining the amount of clinically silent pericardial effusion detected in a routine echocardiography. DESIGN Consecutive case series analysis. SETTING Noninvasive cardiology department of a university hospital. PATIENTS Among 8,041 consecutive patients ...

This report describes the onset of systemic capillary leak (SCL)-like syndrome in a 30-year-old woman with antiphospholipids syndrome (APS) during puerperium.Twelve hours after a cesarean section, she presented a sudden fever and abdominal pains followed by dyspnea, severe edema of the limbs and pelvis.Computer tomography shows congestion of interstitial pulmonary parenchyma, pericardial and pl...

INTRODUCTION In general, pericardial diseases in small animal practice are rare, with pericardial effusion being the most commonly encountered pericardial disease. Septic pericarditis, although well recognised in cattle and humans, has rarely been reported in either the dog or cat. Septic pericarditis can result from pleural or pulmonary infections, secondary to trauma, or from haematogenous sp...

Surgical creation of a pericardial window has been a standard procedure for relieving symptoms of patients presenting with recurrent pericardial effusion. In this report we describe the application of Multitrack balloon catheter for creating a pericardial window in a patient who had recurrent pericardial effusion with tamponade as a result of advance malignant disease of breast.

The use of suxamethonium chloride by intramuscular injection as a short acting muscle relaxant for endotracheal intubation is described. The incidence and severity of postoperative muscle pains in this group of 94 patients is compared with the results of another group (of 112 patients) in which the drug was given intravenously. The incidence of pains was similar in the two groups (26.6 and 28.6...