ALLMedicine™ Pericardial Effusion Center

Dec 2nd, 2022 - Neonatal pericardial effusion (PCE) is one of the most severe complications of central catheters in neonates with its rapid progression and high mortality. We aim to estimate the overall incidence and mortality of catheter-related neonatal PCE, mo...

Dec 1st, 2022 - This study sought to determine the impact of cardiac point-of-care ultrasound (cPOCUS) in a pediatric emergency department (ED) on cardiology subspecialty utilization for subjects with chest pain or syncope. Diagnostic yield of cPOCUS and transtho...

Nov 30th, 2022 - Though uncommon, pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade are serious complications of left atrial appendage closure (LAAC). There are few data related to delayed pericardial effusions from this procedure. This is a single-center prospective ana...

Nov 29th, 2022 - The impact of intravascular imaging guidance [intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)/optical coherence tomography (OCT)] on clinical outcomes in patients undergoing orbital atherectomy (OA) and percutaneous intervention (PCI) are not well characterized. ...

Nov 26th, 2022 - BACKGROUND Cardiac tamponade is a life-threatening condition that occurs when pericardial fluid accumulates in the pericardial sac, causing compression of the heart and obstructive shock. This hemodynamic event typically occurs in right-sided card...

Oct 5th, 2022 - Background: LMB-100, and a closely related immunotoxin, SS1P, also targeting mesothelin, given intravenously, have been studied in Phase 1 clinical studies for mesothelioma and pancreatic cancer. LMB-100 given intravenously, results in systemic in...

Sep 6th, 2022 - The etiology of non-immune hydrops fetalis (NIHF) remains unknown in at least half of all cases after standard prenatal testing; the comprehensive approach with genomic testing and detailed phenotyping is critical for better understanding this hig...

Sep 2nd, 2022 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To assess the safety and tolerability of dasatinib 100 mg/day given after intensive induction (daunorubicin hydrochloride [daunorubicin]/cytarabine), and consolidation chemotherapy (high-dose cytarabine) and as single agent ...

Jul 27th, 2022 - The choice of antithrombotic regimen during TAVI and CTO PCI includes the use of unfractionated heparin. Heparin is the preferred anticoagulant drug in these percutaneous cardiac interventions aiming for an Activated Clotting Time (ACT) > 200sec o...

Jul 7th, 2022 - Prior revisions of the study intended to evaluate multiple StealthTrac Leads (Models AC-1010, AC-1020, AC-2021 and AC-1030) to support the development of a future pivotal study. In the most recent revision of the study, an additional StealthTrac L...

Nov 17th, 2022 - Onatasertib (ATG-008) plus toripalimab elicited an objective response rate (ORR) of 52.4% in patients with relapsed or metastatic cervical cancer, irrespective of PD-L1 expression, according to preliminary data from the phase 2 TORCH trial (NCT035...

Nov 15th, 2022 - The addition of eganelisib (IPI-549) to atezolizumab (Tecentriq) and nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) demonstrated evidence of a long-term progression-free survival (PFS) benefit when used as first-line treatment in patients with metastatic triple-negati...

Oct 21st, 2022 - New data from Israel provide further evidence that myocarditis is a rare adverse event of vaccination with the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in adolescents — one that predominantly occurs in males and typically after the second dose. The n...

Sep 21st, 2022 - The Amplatzer Amulet (Abbott) and first-generation Watchman 2.5 (Boston Scientific) devices provide relatively comparable results out to 3 years after left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO), longer follow-up from the Amplatzer Amulet Left Atrial A...

Sep 20th, 2022 - Approximately 6 months after COVID vaccine-related myocarditis, follow-up MRI scans suggest some recovery in left ventricular ejection fraction and decline in late gadolinium enhancement. (JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging) Around the world, diet quali...