Pericardial window operation, a procedure, where abnormal quantity of malignant fluid, or malignant pericardial effusion (MPE), surrounding the heart, is drained into the neighbouring chest cavity ...

Pericardial window operation, a procedure, where abnormal quantity of malignant fluid, or malignant pericardial effusion (MPE), surrounding the heart, is drained into the neighbouring chest cavity ...

Pericardial window operation is commonly applied to patients diagnosed with cancer. It is a procedure, where abnormal quantity of malignant fluid, or malignant pericardial effusion (MPE), surrounding ...

Pericardial effusion means the build-up of too much fluid in the double-layered, saclike structure near one’s heart (pericardium). Pericardial effusion can lead to excess pressure on the heart, ...

Monitoring pericardial effusion on serial transthoracic echocardiograms (TTEs) provides useful prognostic information in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), research suggests. New or ...

Communication near the end of life (EoL) between oncologists and patients with advanced cancer in Mexico. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not ...

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.

We have read with great interest the article of Kunitoh et al, 2009 published recently on this Journal, about the use of intrapericardial Bleomycin in malignant pericardial effusion (MPE) with lung ...