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
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description 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 obtain return of spontaneous circulation. Physicians should focus on not only low-echoic but also high-echoic areas to accurately diagnose clotting, which can result in a critical condition if not managed properly.
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spelling pubmed-85983142021-11-18 A High-Echoic Layer Surrounding the Heart Suggesting Cardiac Tamponade by Clotting Takeuchi, Ikuto Shitara, Jun Yanagawa, Youichi Aorta (Stamford) 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 obtain return of spontaneous circulation. Physicians should focus on not only low-echoic but also high-echoic areas to accurately diagnose clotting, which can result in a critical condition if not managed properly. Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8598314/ /pubmed/34638146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1729912 Text en The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction so long as the original work is properly cited. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 work is properly cited.
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title_short A High-Echoic Layer Surrounding the Heart Suggesting Cardiac Tamponade by Clotting
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8598314/
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