BACKGROUND Hyponatremia is related to cardiac tamponade in isolated case reports. However, the incidence of hyponatremia in patients with cardiac tamponade is still undetermined. METHODS In a tertiary referral medical center, patients who presented with cardiac tamponade necessitating evacuation of pericardial effusion were included. Medical records were reviewed for the diagnosis of effusion...

BACKGROUND Cardiac tamponade is associated with fatal outcomes for patients with acute type A aortic dissection, and the presence of cardiac tamponade should prompt urgent aortic repair. However, treatment of the patient with critical cardiac tamponade who cannot survive until surgery remains unclear. We analyzed our experience of controlled pericardial drainage (CPD) managing critical cardiac ...

BACKGROUND Extra-pericardial tamponade is a rare life threatening condition that has not previously been reported in association with Wolf Mini-Maze procedures. In this case, atypical presentation of cardiac tamponade caused by postoperative anticoagulation resulted in a second hospitalization, a second surgery, and delayed recovery time. The goal of this case report is to increase awareness ab...

This paper describes the case of a 42-year-old male patient with primary heart malignant solitary fibrous sarcoma presenting with cardiac tamponade. The patient received urgent surgery and adjunctive chemotherapy nevertheless he died 14 months later. To our knowledge, this is the first described case of a primary cardiac tumor causing cardiac tamponade to the point of needing emergency decompre...

Pneumopericardium is rare in acute asthma and cardiac tamponade has not been reported. The case is reported of a 20 year old asthmatic patient in whom assisted ventilation and high airway pressures resulted in tension pneumopericardium with clinical signs of cardiac tamponade that were relieved by pericardial aspiration.

We describe a case of pericardial tamponade as an initial manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although pericarditis or pericardial effusion is the common cardiac complication of SLE, tamponade is unusual. Treatment consists of pericardiocentesis, administration of high dose glucocorticoid an antimalarial drug.