Thorough clinical investigation of low cardiac output syndrome after subxiphoid pericardiostomy

Angiology. 2007 Aug-Sep;58(4):483-6. doi: 10.1177/0003319706291147.

Abstract

The paradoxical hemodynamic response after surgical or catheter pericardial drainage for cardiac tamponade is an infrequent complication. This case report describes this occasional ominous consequence of surgical pericardial decompression and suggests possible physiological explanations of rapidly progressive heart failure and death.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Cardiac Output, Low / diagnostic imaging
  • Cardiac Output, Low / etiology
  • Cardiac Output, Low / physiopathology*
  • Cardiac Tamponade / surgery*
  • Diastole
  • Echocardiography, Doppler
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Myocardial Contraction / physiology*
  • Pericardial Window Techniques / adverse effects*
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Xiphoid Bone