The optimal management of effusive pericardial ... transthoracic (TT group) drainage in 131 patients (age range from 1 month to 81 years) treated from 1979 to the present. The etiology of effusion ...

pericarditis and a pericardial effusion. Pericardial effusions are best diagnosed by echocardiography, which is validated to estimate the size and location, and determine if hemodynamic compromise ...

Patients and Methods: A group of 68 patients with CD and a control group of 60 healthy subjects were subjected to a transthoracic echocardiogram with Doppler study. Conclusions: These findings ...

Electrocardiography showed a new right bundle branch block, and transthoracic Doppler echocardiography showed a small pericardial effusion and increasing right ventricular dilation ...