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Transient midventricular ballooning syndrome with thrombus post pericardiocentesis in a patient with malignant breast cancer
Author(s) -
Moon Donggyu,
Lee Su Nam,
Lee Bong Woo,
Lee Kangmin,
Lee Eung Koo,
Son Seong Wan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.22369
Subject(s) - medicine , pericardiocentesis , pericardial effusion , thrombus , cardiomyopathy , cardiology , radiology , breast cancer , cancer , surgery , heart failure
One day after pericardiocentesis for pericardial effusion in a patient with malignant breast cancer, the clinical and echocardiographic examination for recurrent dyspnea suggested stress cardiomyopathy with mid left ventricular ballooning and thrombus rather than pericardial decompression syndrome. Physicians should therefore pay attention to the possibility of ventricular dysfunction with thrombus post pericardiocentesis and to differences between stress cardiomyopathy and pericardial decompression syndrome. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound 45 :53–57, 2017