An Overlap Presentation of Pericardial Decompression Syndrome and Stress Cardiomyopathy Following Therapeutic Pericardiocentesis

Pericardial decompression syndrome, defined as paradoxical hypotension and pulmonary edema after pericardiocentesis, is a rare complication of pericardiocentesis. Stress cardiomyopathy, caused by excess catecholamine response resulting in left ventricular dysfunction and elevated cardiac enzymes, ca...

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Main Authors: Roberto C. Cerrud-Rodriguez, MD, Syed Muhammad Ibrahim Rashid, MD, Hussein Shaqra, MD, Ahmad Alkhalil, MD, Mohammed Algodi, MD, Jay J. Chudow, MD, Mario J. Garcia, MD, James M. Tauras, MD, Giora Weisz, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-06-01
Series:JACC: Case Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666084920304368