N Engl J Med 2003;349:684-90. Copyright © 2003 Massachusetts Medical Society. ardiac tamponade is life-threatening, slow or rapid compres sion of the heart due to the pericardial accumulation of fluid, pus, blood, clots, or gas, as a result of effusion, trauma, or rupture of the heart. 1,2 Because the causes of pericardial disease 1 and thus of tamponade are diverse, clinicians must choose the ...

Background Cardiac tamponade is a rare but severe complication of pericardial effusion with a poor prognosis. Prompt diagnosis using transthoracic echocardiography allows guiding initial therapeutic management. Although etiologies are numerous, cardiac tamponade is more often due to a hemopericardium. Lethal cardiac tamponade is frequently related to a rupture of an acute myocardial infarction ...

Respiratory muscle blood flow and organ blood flow was studied in two groups of dogs with radioactively labeled microspheres to assess the influence of the working respiratory muscles on the regional distribution of blood flow when arterial pressure and cardiac output were lowered by pericardial tamponade. In one group (n = 6), the dogs were paralyzed and mechanically ventilated (Mv), while in ...

INTRODUCTION Conventionally postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) has been defined as blood loss of more than 500 ml following vaginal delivery and 1000 ml following a cesarean section [Pritchard et al. in Am J Obstet Gynecol 84(10):1271-1282, (1962)]. Another definition labels PPH as any blood loss which causes a 10 % drop in hematocrit [Combs et al. in Obstet Gynecol 77:69-76, (1991)] or which threaten...

OBJECTIVE To review current concepts in the aetiology and management of patients with cardiac tamponade. DATA SOURCES A review of articles reported on acute cardiac tamponade. SUMMARY OF REVIEW Cardiac tamponade is defined as a haemodynamically significant cardiac compression caused by pericardial fluid. The fluid may be blood, pus, effusion (transudate or exudate) or air and treatment invo...

Supervising Section Editor: Sean O. Henderson, MD Submission history: Submitted June 7, 2012; Revision received: July 5, 2012; Accepted August 3, 2012 Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2012.8.12919 [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):152.] University of Calfornia San Francisco, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Critical ...

In clinical cardiac tamponade, open-catheter intrapericardial pressure (IPP) may be used to estimate left ventricular transmural filling pressure (TMFP). However, it has been suggested recently that right atrial pressure (RAP) is superior to IPP in assessing true extracardiac pressure during pericardial drainage. In 10 patients with subacute cardiac tamponade, pulmonary wedge pressure (PWP), RA...

Loss of left ventricular capture from a chronic quadripolar coronary sinus lead was observed during development an iatrogenic cardiac pericardial effusion. Subsequently, pericardiocentesis reobtained. Reaccumulation hemopericardium again resulted in repeated observable loss LV capture. No previous documentation literature review is noted. This phenomenon may have critical clinical value predict...

Pendahuluan: Tamponade jantung akut adalah kondisi mengancam nyawa. Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) merupakan salah satu modalitas pencitraan yang dinilai sensitif dan spesifik untuk membantu diagnosis. Kasus: Laki–laki, usia 29 tahun, pasca-trauma tumpul dada disertai peningkatan tekanan vena jugular, suara menjauh tanpa hipotensi. Pada pemeriksaan POCUS didapatkan tanda sonografi tamponade. ...