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Left ventricular diastolic collapse in low-pressure cardiac tamponade
S K Dwivedi1, R Saran, V S Narain
1Department of Cardiology, King George Medical College, Lucknow, U.P., India.
Clinical Cardiology
|May 23, 1998
Abstract:
A case of systemic hypotension with volume depletion not responding to intravenous fluids was found to have features of cardiac tamponade on two-dimensional (2-D) echocardiography. Intracardiac pressures were normal on cardiac catheterization. An interesting observation was the presence of left ventricular (LV) collapse on 2-D echocardiography. To the authors' best knowledge, such a case of low pressure cardiac tamponade with LV collapse has not been reported earlier.