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Cardiac tamponade a prospective study of (31) cases | ||
| Annals of the College of Medicine, Mosul | ||
| Article 8, Volume 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 87-92 PDF (0 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.33899/mmed.2005.8862 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Salih K. Abdullah; Jassim M. T. Alhyali; Sabri K. Shaikhow | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Objectives: To identify the causes, and the value of the clinical data and echocardiography in the diagnosis of cardiac tamponade ( CT).Design: Prospective study of 31 cases with cardiac tamponade. Setting: Coronary care unit, medical wards and echocardiographic department at Ibn-Sina teaching hospital, Mosul.Subjects: Thirty one patients (19 males, 12 females) presented with (CT) ,selected according to the clinical and echocardiographic criteria .Results: Chronic renal failure (CRF) was the main cause of CT constituting (35.5% of the cases) followed by tuberculosis and malignancy, each constituted 25.8% of the cases, systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE) constituted 6.5% and pyogenic infection and idiopathic each constituted 3.2%. Right atrial collapse was found in 28 cases (90%) by echocardiogram.Conclusion: This study showed that CRF was the most common cause of CT and right atrial diastolic collapse was the most sensitive indicator.Key words: Cardiac tamponade, echocardiogram. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Cardiac tamponade; echocardiogram | ||
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