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A High-Echoic Layer Surrounding the Heart Suggesting Cardiac Tamponade by Clotting

A 16-year-old boy experienced a sudden loss of consciousness. On arrival, he was in cardiac arrest. An ultrasound study revealed a high-echoic layer surrounding the heart. He received a diagnosis of clotting cardiac tamponade. Urgent thoracotomy with pericardiotomy was performed, but he failed to ob...

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Autores principales: Takeuchi, Ikuto, Shitara, Jun, Yanagawa, Youichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8598314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34638146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1729912