ALLMedicine™ Pericardial Effusion Center

Jan 22nd, 2021 - Congenital ventricular diverticulum is a rare abnormality that may occur as an isolated malformation. Most cases are accompanied by pericardial effusion. Prenatal counseling can be difficult because the prognosis is uncertain and there is no conse...

Jan 21st, 2021 - We report a case of a 42-year-old man who presented with acute epigastric and retrosternal chest pain and exertional dyspnoea, and was subsequently diagnosed with polyserositis secondary to post-Streptococcal mitis infection. A CT scan showed a la...

Jan 21st, 2021 - A pericardial effusion is an atypical accumulation of fluid in the pericardial space. It has many potential causes, including cardiac or renal failure, trauma, surgical complications, and myocardial infarctions. Medical imaging aids in diagnosing ...

Jan 18th, 2021 - Despite the monumental advances in the diagnoses and therapeutics of malignancy, several cancer patients have presented with pericardial involvement, including acute pericarditis, constrictive pericarditis, and pericardial effusion. Multiple facto...

Jan 17th, 2021 - To assess imaging data in COVID-19 patients and its association with clinical course and survival and 86 consecutive patients (52 males, 34 females, mean age = 58.8 year) with documented COVID-19 infection were included. Seventy-eight patients (91...

Jan 22nd, 2021 - Congenital ventricular diverticulum is a rare abnormality that may occur as an isolated malformation. Most cases are accompanied by pericardial effusion. Prenatal counseling can be difficult because the prognosis is uncertain and there is no conse...

Jan 21st, 2021 - We report a case of a 42-year-old man who presented with acute epigastric and retrosternal chest pain and exertional dyspnoea, and was subsequently diagnosed with polyserositis secondary to post-Streptococcal mitis infection. A CT scan showed a la...

Jan 21st, 2021 - A pericardial effusion is an atypical accumulation of fluid in the pericardial space. It has many potential causes, including cardiac or renal failure, trauma, surgical complications, and myocardial infarctions. Medical imaging aids in diagnosing ...

Jan 18th, 2021 - Despite the monumental advances in the diagnoses and therapeutics of malignancy, several cancer patients have presented with pericardial involvement, including acute pericarditis, constrictive pericarditis, and pericardial effusion. Multiple facto...

Jan 17th, 2021 - To assess imaging data in COVID-19 patients and its association with clinical course and survival and 86 consecutive patients (52 males, 34 females, mean age = 58.8 year) with documented COVID-19 infection were included. Seventy-eight patients (91...

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...