Cardiac tamponade occurs when a pericardial effusion exerts a significant amount of pressure externally on the heart, resulting in impaired right ventricular filling eventually causing decreased ...

Cardiac tamponade is an uncommon, but life-threatening complication of percutaneous coronary intervention. It occurs twice as frequently after the use of atheroablative devices compared with ...

IT has been known for many years that uremic pericarditis has the most unfavorable prognosis of all the various clinical manifestations of chronic renal disease. 1 That pericardial effusion may result ...

Retrospective analysis of resuscitative thoracotomy for traumatic cardiac arrest covered records from 1999 to 2019 from London's Air Ambulance. People with cardiac tamponade were more likely to ...

Cardiac tamponade is when fluid collects around the heart muscle, for instance, due to trauma. It puts strain on the heart and stops it working effectively. Symptoms include a drop in blood pressure ...

More than one third of patients with PCI-related cardiac tamponade develop the first hemodynamic signs several hours after PCI. These late-presenting cases are often a diagnostic challenge at the ...

Cardiac tamponade is a serious medical condition in which your heart can’t pump enough blood to your body due to fluid buildup around your heart. Seek medical help immediately if you or someone you ...