Pericardial effusions compress the heart, and lead to decrease in cardiac output with haemodynamic collapse. The treatment of PE remains experimental (i.e. not standardized, based on the clinician’s experience) due to lack of large randomized studies. Available treatments differ from observation with/ without anti-inflammatory chemotherapy to pericardiocentesis with/without percutaneus catheter...

Abstract Background Post-pericardiotomy syndrome (PPS) is a condition in which the surgical incision of pericardium provokes onset pericardial and/or pleural effusion as result inflammatory response inside space. PPS common complication following cardiac surgery (CS) and it has significant impact on post-surgical patients’ management. Thus, would be useful to find predictors order stratify pati...

A 61-year-old man was evaluated for hypotension and bradycardia after undergoing a left pleural pericar-dial pneumonectomy via a left thoracotomy for malignant mesothelioma. Past history was significant for coronary disease status after drug-eluting stent to the midleft anterior descending coronary artery 1 year before, hyperlip-idemia, 25 pack-year smoking history, and malignant mesothelioma s...

Background. The pericardium both limits cardiac distension and accentuates ventricular interdependence. Although this effect appears minimal under normal circumstances, the pericardium markedly restricts acute cardiac enlargement. Animal studies have demonstrated gradual pericardial adaptation and expansion in chronic volume overload and cardiomegaly, but the pericardial response in humans with...

conclusion safety-related parameters of posterolateral and posterior approaches in supine thoracentesis are far better than that of the conventional lateral approach. background in patients who have difficulty sitting, thoracentesis is attempted in a supine position via lateral approach. recently, a new table has been designed for supine thoracentesis. this table has gaps that allow access to t...

the standard approach to management of high imperforate anus is colostomy in the newborn period followed by posterior saggital anorectoplasty (psarp) at 6 to 12 months of age. the purpose of this study was to determine whether a one-stage repair by primary psarp in the newborn period could be performed without clear determent to the patient’s functional result. totally 30 newborns with high imp...