ReviewWorld journal of cardiology2019
Pericardial decompression syndrome: A comprehensive review.
Review in World journal of cardiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
- Safety of pericardiocentesis in pulmonary arterial hypertension: a systematic review.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Hydralazine-Associated Pericardial Effusion Causing Cardiac Tamponade Without Hypotension.JACC. Case reports · 2026Article
- Pericardial Decompression Syndrome After Large-Volume Pericardiocentesis in Systemic Sclerosis.JACC. Case reports · 2026Article
- Paradoxical Hemodynamics in Pericardial Decompression Syndrome: Cardiogenic Shock and Recovery With Mechanical Circulatory Support.JACC. Case reports · 2025Article
- Pericardial Decompression Syndrome: A Rare Complication of Malignant Pericardial Effusion Drainage.JACC. Case reports · 2025Article
- Pericardial Decompression Syndrome: Insight Into Pathophysiology Based on Echocardiographic Findings in a 10-Year-Old Boy.JACC. Case reports · 2025Article
- Not All Heart Failure Improves With Diuresis: A Lesson in Left Ventricular Assist Device Physiology.CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Complication rates in real-time ultrasound-guided vs static echocardiography-guided pericardiocentesis: a cohort study.Echo research and practice · 2025Article
- The Jack-in-the-Box: Pericardial Decompression Syndrome Managed by a Multidisciplinary Approach with Early Initiation of Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Case Report.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Pericardial Decompression Syndrome: A Comprehensive Review of a Controversial Entity.The International journal of angiology : official publication of the International College of Angiology, Inc · 2024Review
- To Drain or Not to Drain? Pericardial Decompression Syndrome.CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- Asymptomatic Chronic Large Pericardial Effusions: To Drain or to Observe?Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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- Pericardial decompression syndrome.Qatar medical journal · 2024Article
- Pericardial Decompression Syndrome and an Evanescent Tricuspid Regurgitation: A Real Conundrum.Cureus · 2023Article
- Cardiac tamponade.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023Review
- Pericardial decompression syndrome with acute right ventricular failure: a case series.European heart journal. Case reports · 2023Article
- Pericardial Decompression Syndrome After Drainage of Chronic Pericardial Effusions.JACC. Case reports · 2022Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Pericardial decompression syndrome (PDS) is an infrequent, life-threatening complication following pericardial drainage for cardiac tamponade physiology. PDS usually develops after initial clinical improvement following pericardiocentesis and is significantly underreported and may be overlooked in the clinical practice. Although the precise mechanisms resulting in PDS are not well understood, this seems to be highly associated with patients who have some underlying ventricular dysfunction. Physicians performing pericardial drainage should be mindful of the risk factors associated with the procedure including the rare potential for the development of PDS.
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