ALLMedicine™ Pericardiocentesis Center

Feb 5th, 2023 - Pericardial tamponade (PT) early after cardiac surgery is a challenging clinical entity, not infrequently misrecognized and often only detected late in its course. Because the clinical signs of pericardial tamponade can be very unspecific, a high ...

Jan 24th, 2023 - During critical care procedural skills training (e.g., in intubation and pericardiocentesis) the appropriate supervision level is important to ensure correct use of techniques and guarantee patient safety. The appropriate teaching style should be ...

Jan 23rd, 2023 - Risk stratification before chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is important to inform procedural planning as well as patients and their families. We sought to externally validate the PROGRESS-CTO complication ris...

Jan 20th, 2023 - BACKGROUND Small pericardial effusions are common with chronic hypothyroidism, but large pericardial effusion with tamponade or pre-tamponade physiology is a rare complication of severe uncontrolled hypothyroidism. Presentation of pericardial effu...

Jan 14th, 2023 - Trainees aiming to specialize in Neonatal Perinatal Medicine (NPM), must be competent in a wide range of procedural skills as per the Royal College of Canada. While common neonatal procedures are frequent in daily clinical practice with opportunit...

Nov 14th, 2022 - This objectives of this single-center CTO registry are to: Gather prospective clinical data on all consecutive patients undergoing complex difficult CTO PCI procedures including patient demographic date, cardiac risk factors, procedural technical ...

Nov 7th, 2022 - The study will be a prospective, non-randomized multicenter registry of 100 patients undergoing LAA closure with the WATCHMAN device (possibly with WATCHMAN FLX when approved) utilizing an intra-procedural ICE probe under moderate sedation. The pr...

May 5th, 2022 - A total of 75 patients with atrial fibrillation were scheduled to receive left atrial appendage occlusion combined with radiofrequency ablation, which were divided into 3 groups. The operation was performed under the guidance of intracardiac echoc...

May 5th, 2022 - A total of 60 patients with atrial fibrillation were scheduled to receive left atrial appendage occlusion combined with radiofrequency ablation, which were divided into two groups. The operation was performed under the guidance of intracardiac ech...

Mar 21st, 2022 - Pericardial effusion is a common complication in patients with metastatic malignancy with an incidence as high as 21%. The occurrence of malignant pericardial effusion significantly impacts on patient's survival and quality of life. While pericard...

Dec 4th, 2020 - Sonata Jodele, MD While complex, criteria for diagnosing transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TA-TMA) following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) should be closely followed and should begin with screening, according to a...

Sep 1st, 2020 - BACKGROUND: The heart is an unusual site of metastasis from any malignancy. The pericardium is the most frequently involved site of cardiac metastasis.

Sep 5th, 2019 - Background: In 2018, a male aged 62 years with a history of squamous cell tonsillar cancer, which was successfully treated by concurrent chemoradiation and selective neck dissection in 2014, was diagnosed with primary right sided lung adenocarcino.

Dec 6th, 2018 - Cardiac Arrest in ESRD Patients with ESRD may have sudden cardiac arrest as a result of several etiologies. During the advance cardiac life support algorithm, there is a brief period of evaluation of the electrical rhythm in which echocardiography.

Oct 24th, 2017 - A patient with Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) came to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Australia, after 2 weeks of dyspnea. He was diagnosed with cardiac tamponade and received urgent pericardiocentesis.