ALLMedicine™ Pericardial Effusion Center

Jun 10th, 2021 - As one of the epidermal nevus syndromes, Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims (SFM) is characterized by craniofacial nevus sebaceous (NS) and extracutaneous abnormalities (e.g., brain, eyes, and bone). Here, we report a case of a 4-year-old boy who pre...

Jun 10th, 2021 - We present a case of extreme bradycardia in an 18-year-old man, accompanied by bilateral pleural effusions, pericardial effusion, endocrine dysregulation and Horner's syndrome. Despite extensive investigations as an inpatient and multidisciplinary...

Jun 8th, 2021 - Aortic dissection (AD) is a "can't miss" diagnosis for emergency physicians. An algorithm combining the Aortic Dissection Detection Risk Score (ADD-RS) with D-dimer has been proposed as a high-sensitivity clinical decision tool for AD that can det...

Jun 8th, 2021 - So far, few approaches have been described to reduce inadvertent injury to structure of the heart and nearby organs in percutaneous pericardiocentesis. We hypothesized that an in-plane high frequency ultrasound-guided apical approach, performed in...

Jun 7th, 2021 - Anorexia nervosa has a prevalence of 0.5-3% in adolescents, placing this population at increased risk of cardiac anomalies including arrhythmias, pericardial effusion, and myocardial dysfunction. Our objective is to describe cardiovascular anomali...

Jun 10th, 2021 - As one of the epidermal nevus syndromes, Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims (SFM) is characterized by craniofacial nevus sebaceous (NS) and extracutaneous abnormalities (e.g., brain, eyes, and bone). Here, we report a case of a 4-year-old boy who pre...

Jun 10th, 2021 - We present a case of extreme bradycardia in an 18-year-old man, accompanied by bilateral pleural effusions, pericardial effusion, endocrine dysregulation and Horner's syndrome. Despite extensive investigations as an inpatient and multidisciplinary...

Jun 8th, 2021 - Aortic dissection (AD) is a "can't miss" diagnosis for emergency physicians. An algorithm combining the Aortic Dissection Detection Risk Score (ADD-RS) with D-dimer has been proposed as a high-sensitivity clinical decision tool for AD that can det...

Jun 8th, 2021 - So far, few approaches have been described to reduce inadvertent injury to structure of the heart and nearby organs in percutaneous pericardiocentesis. We hypothesized that an in-plane high frequency ultrasound-guided apical approach, performed in...

Jun 7th, 2021 - Anorexia nervosa has a prevalence of 0.5-3% in adolescents, placing this population at increased risk of cardiac anomalies including arrhythmias, pericardial effusion, and myocardial dysfunction. Our objective is to describe cardiovascular anomali...

Sep 2nd, 2020 - Editor's note: Some details have been changed to protect the patient's identity. Jaya Mallidi, MD, MHS It was an unusually quiet Saturday afternoon on call. I was sipping coffee and leisurely reading that day's echocardiograms. On one, ordered for...

Sep 2nd, 2020 - Editor's note: Some details have been changed to protect the patient's identity. Jaya Mallidi, MD, MHS It was an unusually quiet Saturday afternoon on call. I was sipping coffee and leisurely reading that day's echocardiograms. On one, ordered for...

Apr 13th, 2020 - The most common gastrointestinal site of metastatic spread in lung cancer is the liver. The most common sites of distant metastases in the body also include bone, the adrenal glands and intra-abdominal lymph nodes, the brain and spinal cord, and t...

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.

Jun 16th, 2019 - ECG findings in KD may reveal low-voltage R waves and flattening T waves, with possible prolongation of the PR and QT intervals. Although not common, findings indicative of an acute myocardial infarction (MI) may be seen, including Q waves and rep...