Pericardiocentesis in cardiac tamponade: A case for “Less is More”

Cardiac tamponade complicating leukaemia: immediate chemotherapy or pericardiocentesis?

Although leukaemic infiltration of the pericardium is frequently observed at post-mortem, clinically evident cardiac tamponade is rare. Two cases of cardiac tamponade complicating leukaemia are presented. One patient had cardiac tamponade as the initial presentation of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and experienced complete resolution of the pericardial effusion within 6 days after chemotherapy ...

Less Is More: A Case for Concentrated Portfolios

Less is more… (more or less…).

In April 1981 Xerox introduced the Star 8010 workstation, the first commercial system with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the first to use the “desktop” metaphor to organize a user’s interactions with the computer. Despite the perception of huge progress, from the perspective of design and usage models, there has been precious little progress in the intervening years. In the tradition of ...

Paradoxical response of plasma atrial natriuretic hormone to pericardiocentesis in cardiac tamponade.

Subxiphoid pericardiocentesis guided by contrast two-dimensional echocardiography in cardiac tamponade: experience of 110 consecutive patients.

AIMS We evaluated echo-guided pericardiocentesis with contrast study in cardiac tamponade management. PATIENTS AND METHODS From 1982 to 1998 we performed pericardiocentesis in 110 patients (56 +/- 14 years old). Subxiphoid approach was used in 109. Cardiac tamponade was idiopathic (n = 16), secondary to malignant disease (n = 50) and miscellaneous disorders (n = 44). RESULTS Pericardial flu...