Hypertensive Crisis in Cardiac Tamponade

Cardiac tamponade is a potentially life-threatening disorder believed to be commonly associated with hypotension and even shock. However, many patients with subacute tamponade are indeed hypertensive at initial presentation. We present a case of a 76-year-old female with hypertensive crisis in the s...

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Autores principales: Iorgoveanu, Corina, Zaghloul, Ahmed, Desai, Aakash, Balakumaran, Kathir, Chen, Kai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6110413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30155376
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2873
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author Iorgoveanu, Corina
Zaghloul, Ahmed
Desai, Aakash
Balakumaran, Kathir
Chen, Kai
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Chen, Kai
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description Cardiac tamponade is a potentially life-threatening disorder believed to be commonly associated with hypotension and even shock. However, many patients with subacute tamponade are indeed hypertensive at initial presentation. We present a case of a 76-year-old female with hypertensive crisis in the settings of cardiac tamponade whose blood pressure normalized after pericardiocentesis.
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spelling pubmed-61104132018-08-28 Hypertensive Crisis in Cardiac Tamponade Iorgoveanu, Corina Zaghloul, Ahmed Desai, Aakash Balakumaran, Kathir Chen, Kai Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Cardiac tamponade is a potentially life-threatening disorder believed to be commonly associated with hypotension and even shock. However, many patients with subacute tamponade are indeed hypertensive at initial presentation. We present a case of a 76-year-old female with hypertensive crisis in the settings of cardiac tamponade whose blood pressure normalized after pericardiocentesis. Cureus 2018-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6110413/ /pubmed/30155376 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2873 Text en Copyright © 2018, Iorgoveanu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Hypertensive Crisis in Cardiac Tamponade
title_full Hypertensive Crisis in Cardiac Tamponade
title_fullStr Hypertensive Crisis in Cardiac Tamponade
title_full_unstemmed Hypertensive Crisis in Cardiac Tamponade
title_short Hypertensive Crisis in Cardiac Tamponade
title_sort hypertensive crisis in cardiac tamponade
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6110413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30155376
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2873
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