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Should Emergent Pericardiocentesis Be Added to Pediatric ICU Training? [PDF]

Case Reports in Cardiology
Purulent pericarditis can be rapidly fatal if not diagnosed and treated promptly. We present a case of purulent pericarditis that progressed to cardiac tamponade, necessitating emergent bedside pericardiocentesis.
Lanah Almatroud, Waseem Ostwani
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Prevalence, characteristics and mortality of cancer patients undergoing pericardiocentesis in the United States between 2004 and 2017

Cancer Medicine, 2023
Background Pericardiocentesis is undertaken in patients with cancer for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. However, there are limited data on the frequency, characteristics and mortality of patients with different cancers undergoing pericardiocentesis.
Andrija Matetic, Eric H Yang
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Recent trends of pericardiocentesis in pediatric population [PDF]

BMC Pediatrics
Background Pericardiocentesis serves both diagnostic and life-saving purposes across a range of clinical scenarios. Despite its importance, there remain limited data regarding the effectiveness and safety of pericardiocentesis in the clinical setting ...
Duck Woo Lee, Taehui Han, U-Vin Shin, Gi Beom Kim, Seung Min Baek, Susan Taejung Kim, Sang-Yun Lee, Mi Kyoung Song, Eun Jung Bae   +8 more
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Clinical characteristics and risk factors of in-hospital mortality among patients undergoing percutaneous pericardiocentesis

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023
BackgroundPercutaneous pericardiocentesis represents a salvage procedure in case of cardiac tamponade and diagnostic procedure in chronic pericardial effusion of unknown source.
Maciej Tomasz Wybraniec
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Perforation of Jejunum as a Rare Complication of Pericardiocentesis: A Case Report

Clinical Case Reports
The safety of pericardiocentesis as a therapy for cardiac tamponade has improved since the advent of echocardiography‐guided pericardiocentesis. The most serious complications include injury of the cardiac chambers, laceration of the coronary arteries or
Fatemeh Bahrami, Maryam Mehrpooya, Seyed Mohsen Ahmadi   +2 more
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In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Pericardiocentesis for Pericardial Effusion with and Without Malignancy [PDF]

Current Oncology
Background: Despite the high prevalence of malignant pericardial effusions (MPEs), the differences in mortality between those undergoing pericardiocentesis for MPE versus non-malignancy pericardial effusions (NMPEs) are not well characterized. To address
Ju Young Bae, Dae Yong Park, Soumya Banna, Jiun-Ruey Hu, Amr Saleh, Mamas A. Mamas, Robert L. McNamara, Michael G. Nanna, John F. Setaro, Luke K. Kim, S. Elissa Altin   +10 more
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Association of Pericardial Tamponade With Initiation of Sotatercept in a Patient With Eisenmenger Syndrome. [PDF]

Pulm Circ
ABSTRACT Eisenmenger syndrome (ES) represents an advanced stage of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) associated with congenital heart disease. It is characterized by elevated pulmonary vascular resistance, with a right‐to‐left shunt and resting hypoxemia. ES is associated with high morbidity and mortality.
Aldawsari KA, Simpkin CT, Frank BS, Ivy DD.   +3 more
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Hemoperitoneum, Hepatic Laceration, and Hepatic Artery Pseudoaneurysm as a Complication of Emergent Pericardiocentesis

JACC: Case Reports, 2023
Emergent pericardiocentesis is a potentially life-saving therapeutic procedure. We report a case of hemoperitoneum, a rare but known complication of pericardiocentesis; due to hepatic artery laceration and hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm formation ...
Waseem Farooq, MD, Vijay Iyer, MD
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Transient left ventricular dysfunction after therapeutic pericardiocentesis - Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or pericardial decompression syndrome

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2022
We present a case of reversible left ventricular (LV) dysfunction with characteristic stress or "Takotsubo" cardiomyopathy (SCM) after therapeutic pericardiocentesis in a patient with tubercular pericardial effusion.
Jaikrit Bhutani, Aditya Batra, Ashu Gupta, Anshul Gupta, Kunal Mahajan   +4 more
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Unveiling the causes of pericardial effusion in a contemporary case series of pericardiocentesis in Latin America

Scientific Reports, 2022
Pericardial effusions requiring pericardiocentesis have multiple causes that vary among geographical regions and health contexts. This procedure can be performed for diagnostic or therapeutic indications.
Juan Hernando del Portillo-Navarrete, Alejandro Pizano, Jhonattan Benavides, Andres M. Palacio, Karen Moreno-Medina, Jaime Cabrales, Darío Echeverri   +6 more
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