This content is sponsored by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Although well tolerated for some patients, fluid buildup around the heart, particularly in excess, can cause other complications like ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Three patients in both the treatment and nontreatment groups developed small, asymptomatic pericardial effusions ...

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

Pericardial involvement is common in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and, when combined with a focused clinical and echocardiographic evaluation, may help identify those at higher risk for ...

While a common non-drug treatment called ablation exists for the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation (a-fib), the procedure can be more problematic for women than for men. Science X Daily and ...

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Morbidity of cytoreductive surgery with intraperitoneal chemotherapy in recurrent disease at a single institution. Background: Malignant pericardial effusion (MPE) is a relatively common complication ...