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Acute Cardiac Tamponade

Acute Cardiac Tamponade

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Acute Cardiac Tamponade

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Acute Cardiac Tamponade

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Publisher

Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

Journal title

The New England journal of medicine, 2003-08, Vol.349 (7), p.684-690

Language

English

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Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

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Contents

Acute cardiac tamponade is life threatening and requires prompt pericardial drainage. This review explains the manifestations of tamponade, including a presentation in which the diagnostic finding of pulsus paradoxus is absent, and variant forms, such as low-pressure tamponade and regional tamponade.
Cardiac tamponade is life-threatening, slow o...

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Acute Cardiac Tamponade

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_73569569

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_73569569

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ISSN

0028-4793

E-ISSN

1533-4406

DOI

10.1056/NEJMra022643

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