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 ...

Cardiac tamponade is a medical emergency in which blood or fluids fill the space between the sac that covers the heart and the heart muscle. There is no doubt that excess of oil is bad for the heart ...

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 ...

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 ...