Open AccessLeft ventricular diastolic collapse in low‐pressure cardiac tamponade
Author(s) -
Dwivedi Sudhanshu Kumar,
Saran Ramkirti,
Narain Varun Shanker
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.4960210318
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac tamponade , cardiology , intracardiac injection , tamponade , diastole , cardiac catheterization , blood pressure
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.