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 ...

Boston, MA - Pulsus paradoxus is no longer a paradox, but it may be among the most reliable of the traditional clinical signs suggesting cardiac tamponade "when faced with a patient with pericardial ...

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 ...

He undergoes emergent cardiac catheterization and a stent is placed in his left anterior descending coronary artery. Two days later he develops acute onset altered mental status and is found to have a ...