The BMT database at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital contains prospectively collected data on all patients transplanted at our center. Database records on 205 patients receiving a blood or marrow ...

The implications of this case are 3-fold: first, we present here, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of spontaneous bacterial pericarditis caused by nonencapsulated H influenzae occurring in ...

PERICARDIAL inflammation is a relatively common complication of uremia. Although its occurrence seems superficially related to the degree of renal failure the pathogenesis is still obscure. The ...

Pericardial tamponade associated with central catheters is often lethal, unless promptly identified. We report our experience with two infants who suffered this complication but were successfully ...

After treating cardiac tamponade arising from atrial fibrillation (Afib) catheter ablation, pericardial drains do not need to be kept in place for an additional 12 to 24 hours, researchers suggested.

TURIN, ITALY (updated) — The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases has developed a stepwise scoring system to identify patients who need immediate ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 58-year-old woman presents to the hospital reporting fatigue, swelling of the legs and feet, and shortness of breath. She explains that her symptoms have been getting worse over the past 2 months.

Women and patients with a history of coagulopathy have a heightened risk of significant pericardial complications during TAVR, new data show. For procedures performed in the United States between 2012 ...

Prediction of colorectal cancer relapse and survival via tissue RNA levels of matrix metalloproteinase-9. There were 13 men and 14 women, with a median age of 59 years. They mainly had lung (70%) and ...

Pericarditis is inflammation of the sac around the heart, called the pericardium. If pericarditis becomes chronic, it can lead to pericardial effusion. This is when the pericardium fills with fluid.