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Cardiac tamponade is a rare cause of shock in the medical intensive care unit. This paper describes the case of a focal cardiac tamponade caused by… Cardiac tamponade is a rare cause of shock in the medical intensive care unit. This paper describes the case of a focal cardiac tamponade caused by com...

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Published inJACC. Case reports Vol. 1; no. 1; pp. 70 - 72
Main Authors Atri, Deepak, Shappell, Claire, Dieffenbach, Paul B., Sun, Yee-Ping
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Inc 01.06.2019
Elsevier
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renal cell carcinoma
tracheoesophageal fistula
transthoracic echocardiography
transthoracic echocardiography
renal cell carcinoma
tracheoesophageal fistula
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Summary:Cardiac tamponade is a rare cause of shock in the medical intensive care unit. This paper describes the case of a focal cardiac tamponade caused by… Cardiac tamponade is a rare cause of shock in the medical intensive care unit. This paper describes the case of a focal cardiac tamponade caused by compression of the left atrium due to an esophageal stent. Echocardiography yielded a diagnosis when other diagnostic methods did not. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.) [Display omitted]
ISSN:2666-0849
2666-0849
DOI:10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.05.019