Cardiac tamponade occurs when a pericardial effusion exerts a significant amount of pressure externally on the heart, resulting in impaired right ventricular filling eventually causing decreased ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Cardiac tamponade' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

Cardiac tamponade complicating PCI can result in emergency surgery, myocardial infarction, or death ( Table III). The overall mortality rate associated with this clinical condition is very high (40%).

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 BMT database at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital contains prospectively collected data on all patients transplanted at our center. Database records on 205 patients receiving a blood or marrow ...

The ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome is a potentially lethal complication of the administration of gonadotropin for the induction of ovulation. The condition occurs in up to 5% of patients undergoing ...

A pilot study of the combination of entinostat with capecitabine in high-risk breast cancer after neoadjuvant therapy. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

Pulsus paradoxus is an exaggerated drop in blood pressure when you breathe in. It isn’t a disease. Instead, it’s a symptom of an underlying condition. Your heart and lungs work together to take in ...

Prospective cohort study assessing limb volume change (LVC) and quality of life in breast cancer survivors No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...

There is no doubt that excess of oil is bad for the heart and overall health. Knowing about the right type of oil is the key to a healthy heart, says Dr Santosh Kumar Dora, Cardiac Electro ...

Cardiac tamponade is an uncommon, but life-threatening complication of percutaneous coronary intervention. It occurs twice as frequently after the use of atheroablative devices compared with ...