Late postoperative pericardial effusion

Silent pericardial effusion in late pregnancy.

In order to investigate the hemodynarnic changes which occur during pregnancy, 40 healthy pregnant women (mean age 28 years) were studied at various stages of their gestation by Tm and two-dimensional echocardiography. All pregnancies were uncomplicated and there was one twin gestation. Of 40, 20 women were in late pregnancy (32nd to 38th weeks of pregnancy) and complained with occasional dyspn...

Evolution of the postoperative pericardial effusion after day 15: the problem of the late tamponade.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To evaluate, through clinical and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) follow-up, the natural history of persistent pericardial effusion (PE) after postoperative day 15 in patients who were given and were not given anticoagulant therapy. DESIGN AND PATIENTS We retrospectively studied a cohort of 1,277 patients who were hospitalized between May 1997 and May 1999 in our center ...

Postoperative pericardial effusion and posterior pericardiotomy, related or not?

INTRODUCTION Large pericardial effusions after cardiac surgery develop in 30% of patients and reach their maximum size on approximately day 10 postoperatively. Tamponade develops in approximately 1% of patients with large pericardial effusions. Effusion may be prevented by posterior pericardiotomy, but its role and possible adverse consequences are controversial. We sought to further investigat...

Pericardial effusion.

Chronic Pericardial Effusion

P ERICARDIAL effusion is relatively common in tropical Africa, and because of the prevalence of tuberculosis in such developing countries most large sterile pericardial effusions are frequently regarded as tubereulous unless proof to the contrary is forthcoming. With the recent introduction of chemotherapy such a diagnosis demands the long-term exhibition of antituberculous drugs. It has been k...