Cardiac tamponade occurs when a pericardial effusion exerts a significant amount of pressure externally on the heart, resulting in impaired right ventricular filling eventually causing decreased ...

[43] Pericardiectomy is almost never indicated for recurrent pericarditis, except in cases with repeated recurrences with cardiac tamponade ... relief in most patients. However, some patients ...

The differential diagnoses of SVC syndrome include cardiac tamponade and right ventricular dysfunction. Dedicated cardiac imaging with echocardiography can distinguish between these diagnoses.

This can be found in cardiac tamponade or during chronic obstructive ... To measure the pulsus paradoxus, place a blood pressure cuff on the patients arm and very very slowly deflate the cuff ...