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 ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Beck's triad is a term used to describe a set of symptoms that can indicate a severe heart problem. It consists of three symptoms that often occur together: ...

Acute pericardial disease (acute pericarditis and cardiac tamponade) was the first manifestation of previously unknown malignancies in 18 out of 450 patients (4.0%) and lung cancer was the most ...

Pericardial effusions are best diagnosed by echocardiography, which is validated to estimate the size and location, and determine if hemodynamic compromise is present causing cardiac tamponade.

of mercury. There were, however, individual variations in technic in the preparation, positioning and maintenance of the balloon tamponade. The Sengstaken-Blakemore tube was employed on 81 ...

except in cases with repeated recurrences with cardiac tamponade and evidence of serious steroid toxicity, although other approaches may be equally effective and less invasive (e.g., pericardial ...