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Cureus
December 2024
Emergency Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, GBR.
Cardiac tamponade is widely known to be associated with life-threatening hypotension and rarely with hypertension. We present the case of a 53-year-old woman with hypertension and echocardiographic features of tamponade who had a cardiac arrest on intubation. The paradoxical hypertension is thought to be due to tachycardia and increased peripheral vascular resistance resulting from the compensatory sympathetic surge following impaired cardiac filling caused by the effusion.
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January 2025
Department of Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, 830054, China.
Background: Echinococcosis is a zoonotic parasitic disease prevalent in pastoral areas, mainly involving the liver and lungs, and rarely affecting the brain and heart. This article describes the diagnosis and treatment of 14 patients with cardiac encapsulated cysts, with the aim of providing insights into the clinical presentation, diagnostic challenges, therapeutic strategies, and outcomes associated with cardiac encapsulated cysts.
Methods: This retrospective case series included 13 patients with cardiac and/or cerebral encapsulated cysts.
Circ Heart Fail
January 2025
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (H.B., M.A.F., F.G.A.).
J Thorac Dis
December 2024
Lymphatic Surgery Department, The Affiliated Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Background: Chylopericardium is a rare disease resulting from lymphatic system dysfunction and characterized by recurrent chylous pericardial effusion and cardiac compression. Traditional treatments like fasting, somatostatin injection and ligation of pericardial lymphatic vessels are less effective, with high recurrence rate. Fenestration is regarded as the last resort for treating chylopericardium.
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January 2025
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cardiovascular Institute.
Rotablator-associated coronary perforation can be fatal if bailout is delayed. Successful bailout is typically defined as the disappearance of contrast extravasation after a haemostatic intervention. We report a case of recurrent cardiac tamponade in the subacute phase, wherein haemostasis appeared to have been achieved on angiography following the implantation of a covered stent during the index procedure.
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