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Thorough Clinical Investigation of Low Cardiac Output Syndrome After Subxiphoid Pericardiostomy

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece, dosioth{at}internet.gr

Alexander Stefanidis, MD

Department of Cardiology, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece

Christos Chatziantoniou, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece

Sophia Sgouropoulou, MD

Department of Anesthesiology, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece

The paradoxical hemodynamic response after surgical or catheter pericardial drainage for cardiac tamponade is an infrequent complication. This case report describes this occasional ominous consequence of surgical pericardial decompression and suggests possible physiological explanations of rapidly progressive heart failure and death.

Angiology, Vol. 58, No. 4, 483-486 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0003319706291147


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