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  2. Cardiac tamponade - Wikipedia

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    Cardiac tamponade, also known as pericardial tamponade (/ ˌ t æ m. p ə ˈ n eɪ d / [4]), is a compression of the heart due to pericardial effusion (the build-up of pericardial fluid in the sac around the heart). [2] Onset may be rapid or gradual. [2]

  3. Beck's triad (cardiology) - Wikipedia

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    Beck's triad is a collection of three medical signs associated with acute cardiac tamponade, a medical emergency when excessive fluid accumulates in the pericardial sac around the heart and impairs its ability to pump blood. The signs are low arterial blood pressure, distended neck veins, and distant, muffled heart sounds. [1]

  4. Postpericardiotomy syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Complications include pericarditis, pericardial effusion, pleuritis, pulmonary infiltration, and very rarely pericardial tamponade. Of these cardiac tamponade is the most life-threatening complication. The pericardial fluid increases intra-pericardial pressure therefore preventing complete expansion of the atria and the ventricles upon the ...

  5. Hemopericardium - Wikipedia

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    It is clinically similar to a pericardial effusion, and, depending on the volume and rapidity with which it develops, may cause cardiac tamponade. [ 1 ] The condition can be caused by full-thickness necrosis (death) of the myocardium (heart muscle) after myocardial infarction , chest trauma , [ 2 ] and by over-prescription of anticoagulants .

  6. Kussmaul's sign - Wikipedia

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    The differential diagnoses of Kussmaul's sign includes constrictive pericarditis, restrictive cardiomyopathy, pericardial effusion, and severe right-sided heart failure. [ citation needed ] With cardiac tamponade , jugular veins are distended and typically show a prominent x descent and an absent y descent as opposed to patients with ...

  7. Purulent pericarditis - Wikipedia

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    Purulent Pericarditis; Echocardiogram showing pericardial effusion with signs of cardiac tamponade: Specialty: Cardiology: Symptoms: substernal chest pain (exacerbated supine and with breathing deeply), dyspnea, fever, rigors/chills, and cardiorespiratory signs (i.e., tachycardia, friction rub, pulsus paradoxus, pericardial effusion, cardiac tamponade, pleural effusion)

  8. Electrical alternans - Wikipedia

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    Electrical alternans is an electrocardiographic phenomenon of alternation of QRS complex amplitude or axis between beats and a possible wandering base-line. It can be seen in cardiac tamponade and severe pericardial effusion and is thought to be related to changes in the ventricular electrical axis due to fluid in the pericardium, as the heart essentially wobbles in the fluid filled ...

  9. Uremic pericarditis - Wikipedia

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    Fibrinous pericarditis is an exudative inflammation.The pericardium is infiltrated by the fibrinous exudate. This consists of fibrin strands and leukocytes.Fibrin describes an amorphous, eosinophilic (pink) network.