Diagnosis and management of neoplastic pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade; review of two case studies at the San Juan Veteran Administration Medical Center
Bol. Asoc. Méd. P. R
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97(3,Pt.2): 192-206, Jul.-Sept. 2005.
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in English
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| ID: lil-442767
ABSTRACT
Two case reports of patients with known non-small cell lung cancer that developed cardiac tamponade related to metastatic pericardial disease are described. Both of these patients underwent urgent subxiphoid echocardiographic guided pericardiocentesis. They both were treated with sclerotherapy using intrapericardial bleomycin. There were no complications from these procedures and no recurrence of cardiac tamponade. They both lived more than 6 months after this intervention. This article reviews the pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and current therapeutic interventions of patients with neoplastic pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade
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Main subject:
Pericardial Effusion
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Cardiac Tamponade
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Adenocarcinoma
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Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
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Lung Neoplasms
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Bol. Asoc. Méd. P. R
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2005
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Puerto Rico
Institution/Affiliation country:
Veterans Administration Medical Center/PR
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