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Echocardiography of isolated subacute left heart tamponade in a patient with cor pulmonale and circumferential pericardial effusion

Patients with advanced idiopathic pulmonary artery hypertension have often a chronic pericardial effusion. It is the result of increased transudation and impaired re-absorption due to elevated venous pressure. These patients have pre-existent symptoms and signs of chronic right heart failure. High d...

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Autores principales: Marš, Tomaž, Mikolavčič, Helena, Salobir, Barbara, Podbregar, Matej
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20630052
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-8-27