The BMT database at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital contains prospectively collected data on all patients transplanted at our center. Database records on 205 patients receiving a blood or marrow ...

Bruch and colleagues [1] recently reported the interesting results of an important new study. They concluded that the QRS voltage associated with pericardial effusion was diminished only in patients ...

Cardiac tamponade occurs when a pericardial effusion exerts a significant amount of pressure externally on the heart, resulting in impaired right ventricular filling eventually causing decreased ...

IT has been known for many years that uremic pericarditis has the most unfavorable prognosis of all the various clinical manifestations of chronic renal disease. 1 That pericardial effusion may result ...

Here, we describe a case of an isolated pericardial effusion in a patient with SCID after allogeneic BMT. Enhanced clonal expansion and reduced newly derived thymic T cells in the pericardial effusion ...

After treating cardiac tamponade arising from atrial fibrillation (Afib) catheter ablation, pericardial drains do not need to be kept in place for an additional 12 to 24 hours, researchers suggested.

BARCELONA, SPAIN — In the Post-Operative Pericardial Effusion-2 (POPE-2) trial, once again, the anti-inflammatory drug colchicine was not effective for warding off complications following cardiac ...

The ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome is a potentially lethal complication of the administration of gonadotropin for the induction of ovulation. The condition occurs in up to 5% of patients undergoing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BARCELONA, Spain — Colchicine is not an effective treatment for patients who develop postoperative pericardial ...

Women and patients with a history of coagulopathy have a heightened risk of significant pericardial complications during TAVR, new data show. For procedures performed in the United States between 2012 ...

A 58-year-old woman presents to the hospital reporting fatigue, swelling of the legs and feet, and shortness of breath. She explains that her symptoms have been getting worse over the past 2 months.

New ESC Guidelines on pericardial diseases are published today. Until now there was insufficient evidence for strong recommendations in this group of conditions which can severely restrict quality of ...