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Left ventricular tamponade: echocardiographic and hemodynamic manifestations
R T Lee1, S J Bhatia, J M Kirshenbaum
1Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.
Clinical Cardiology
|February 1, 1989
Abstract:
A patient with progressive systemic sclerosis was evaluated for dyspnea. Echocardiography revealed enlarged right heart chambers, a moderate pericardial effusion, and diastolic collapse of the left ventricle. Hemodynamic studies before and after removal of pericardial fluid were consistent with compromise of left, but not right, heart filling by the pericardial fluid.