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ArticleEuropean heart journal. Case reports2021

Left ventricular tamponade- pathophysiology determines the therapeutic approach: a case series.

Barun Kumar, Ashwin Kodliwadmath, Anupam Singh, Amar Upadhyay, Anshuman Darbari, Bhanu Duggal

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Article in European heart journal. Case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Barun KumarDepartment of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Ashwin KodliwadmathDepartment of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.ORCID 0000-0002-1709-3579
Anupam SinghDepartment of Ophthalmology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.ORCID 0000-0002-2288-1350
Amar UpadhyayDepartment of Paediatrics, Doon Medical College, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
Anshuman DarbariDepartment of CTVS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.ORCID 0000-0002-4524-2359
Bhanu DuggalDepartment of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh · INDoon University · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLeft ventricular (LV) tamponade is rare. LV tamponade can occur in cases of a loculated pericardial effusion overlying the LV and in cases of circumferential pericardial effusions in patients with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Both causes of LV tamponade share the common feature of not presenting with the classical features of cardiac tamponade. However, the therapeutic approach of the two is different. CASE SUMMARY: Here, we report two cases of LV tamponade. The first patient was a case of post-mitral valve replacement who presented with loculated posterior pericardial effusion with LV tamponade. Due to the loculated and posterior nature of the effusion, his pericardial fluid was drained from the axilla by echocardiographic and fluoroscopic guidance. The second patient presented with features of severe PAH with a circumferential pericardial effusion and LV tamponade. Due to the circumferential nature of the effusion, the pericardiocentesis was performed from the subxiphoid route. DISCUSSION: The pathophysiology of LV tamponade must be determined accurately before performing pericardiocentesis. Left ventricular tamponade in patients with severe PAH and non-loculated circumferential effusion can be drained from the subxiphoid route, while LV tamponade due to loculated effusion overlying LV must be drained by echocardiographic and fluoroscopic guidance from the axilla.

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Cardiac tamponadeCase reportCase seriesPericardial effusionPericardiocentesisProsthetic heart valvePulmonary artery hypertension

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