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Cardiac tamponade related to a coronary injury by a pericardial calcification: an unusual complication

BACKGROUND: Cardiac tamponade is a rare but severe complication of pericardial effusion with a poor prognosis. Prompt diagnosis using transthoracic echocardiography allows guiding initial therapeutic management. Although etiologies are numerous, cardiac tamponade is more often due to a hemopericardi...

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Autores principales: Cypierre, Anne, Pesteil, Francis, Cassat, Claude, Parraf, François, Bellier, Rémy, Ursulet, Lionel, Eveno, Claire, Vignon, Philippe, François, Bruno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22533452
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-12-28