The implications of this case are 3-fold: first, we present here, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of spontaneous bacterial pericarditis caused by nonencapsulated H influenzae occurring in ...

The BMT database at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital contains prospectively collected data on all patients transplanted at our center. Database records on 205 patients receiving a blood or marrow ...

PERICARDIAL inflammation is a relatively common complication of uremia. Although its occurrence seems superficially related to the degree of renal failure the pathogenesis is still obscure. The ...

After treating cardiac tamponade arising from atrial fibrillation (Afib) catheter ablation, pericardial drains do not need to be kept in place for an additional 12 to 24 hours, researchers suggested.

Prediction of MYCN Amplification in Neuroblastoma Using Serum DNA and Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Pericardial tamponade is a life-threatening disorder caused by varying medical ...

An IRB-approved retrospective review of the medical records of 409 consecutive HSCT recipients, who underwent transplant between January 2012 and April 2016 at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical ...

Cardiac tamponade occurs when a pericardial effusion exerts a significant amount of pressure externally on the heart, resulting in impaired right ventricular filling eventually causing decreased ...

IT has been known for many years that uremic pericarditis has the most unfavorable prognosis of all the various clinical manifestations of chronic renal disease. 1 That pericardial effusion may result ...

Current guidelines for the U.S. and Europe have a recommendation of class 2b, level of evidence B or C for LAAO in patients ...

Pericarditis is inflammation of the sac around the heart, called the pericardium. If pericarditis becomes chronic, it can lead to pericardial effusion. This is when the pericardium fills with fluid.

A previously healthy 78-year-old white female was admitted complaining of sore throat and dysphagia of 6 days' duration and 2 days of progressively worsening dyspnea. Review of systems was otherwise ...