The ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome is a potentially lethal complication of the administration of gonadotropin for the induction of ovulation. The condition occurs in up to 5% of patients undergoing ...

More than one third of patients with PCI-related cardiac tamponade develop the first hemodynamic signs several hours after PCI. These late-presenting cases are often a diagnostic challenge at the ...

IT has been known for many years that uremic pericarditis has the most unfavorable prognosis of all the various clinical manifestations of chronic renal disease. 1 That pericardial effusion may result ...

In the small percentage of patients undergoing TAVR who have a preexisting unruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), there appears to be increased risks of both aortic dissection and cardiac ...

Prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy was feasible for traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) in a mature, physician-led, urban system and was associated with improved survival, particularly when performed ...

Retrospective analysis of resuscitative thoracotomy for traumatic cardiac arrest covered records from 1999 to 2019 from London's Air Ambulance. People with cardiac tamponade were more likely to ...