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J Dial
; 4(2-3): 83-9, 1980.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-7440846
ABSTRACT
Seven maintenance hemodialysis patients suffering from intractable uremic pericardial effusion were treated with instillation of a non-absorbable steroid, triamcinolone hexacetonide, into the pericardial sac via a large-bore catheter. The latter was placed under direct vision by subxiphoid pericardiotomy. All patients responded to the treatment while complications of the procedure were few and minor.