KRISHAN K. GOYLE, M.D. Pericarditis, or inflammation of the pericardium, is most often caused by viral infection. It can also develop as a result of bacterial or other infection, autoimmune disease, ...
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 ...
The implications of this case are 3-fold: first, we present here, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of spontaneous bacterial pericarditis caused by nonencapsulated H influenzae occurring in ...
Pericardiocentesis is the most important procedure for cardiac tamponade. The causes of pericardial effusion and tamponade are many. Common causes are broadly infective or non-infective pericarditis, ...
This ECG occurred in the setting of a large pericardial effusion causing cardiac tamponade. The pericardial effusion dampens the electrical signal on the ECG causing low voltage to be present (see Low ...
Cardiac tamponade can be a life-threatening condition that requires urgent pericardiocentesis. On the other hand, the pericardiocentesis procedure, although life-saving, may be associated with serious ...
This patient has cardiac tamponade. Malignancy is the most common cause for a pericardial effusion resulting in increased intrapericardial pressures causing the right atrium and right ventricle to ...
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