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01-06-2018 | Understanding the Disease

Cardiac tamponade

Authors: Armand Mekontso Dessap, Michelle S. Chew

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 6/2018

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Cardiac tamponade (CT) is characterized by hemodynamic instability due to heart compression by accumulation of fluid, blood, clots, or gas in the pericardial space [1]. In this article, we focus on understanding pathophysiology, clinical and echocardiographic findings of non-loculated pericardial fluid accumulation, in order to answer the following question: In a patient with pericardial effusion, how do I recognize and manage tamponade? Loculated intrapericardial effusions or extrapericardial tamponade (by mediastinal or pleural processes) that may cause local compression on any heart chamber will not be extensively discussed here. …

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Title: Cardiac tamponade
Authors: Armand Mekontso Dessap
Michelle S. Chew
Publication date: 01-06-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 6/2018
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5191-z

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