What to know about the rare condition.

Background Pericardium is considered electrically inert, but diffuse ST-elevation is an electrocardiographic marker of acute pericarditis. We hypothesised that ST-elevation in acute pericarditis may ...

Bruch and colleagues [1] recently reported the interesting results of an important new study. They concluded that the QRS voltage associated with pericardial effusion was diminished only in patients ...

This ECG occurred in the setting of a large pericardial effusion causing cardiac tamponade. The pericardial effusion dampens the electrical signal on the ECG causing low voltage to be present (see Low ...

This patient has cardiac tamponade. Malignancy is the most common cause for a pericardial effusion resulting in increased intrapericardial pressures causing the right atrium and right ventricle to ...