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1. An Overlap Presentation of Pericardial Decompression Syndrome and Stress Cardiomyopathy Following Therapeutic Pericardiocentesis

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Roberto C. Cerrud-Rodriguez, MD, Syed Muhammad Ibrahim Rashid, MD, Hussein Shaqra, MD, Ahmad Alkhalil, MD, Mohammed Algodi, MD, Jay J. Chudow, MD, Mario J. Garcia, MD, James M. Tauras, MD, and Giora Weisz, MD

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cardiomyopathy, pericardial decompression syndrome, pericardial effusion, stress cardiomyopathy, systolic dysfunction, Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, RC666-701
Abstract

Pericardial decompression syndrome, defined as paradoxical hypotension and pulmonary edema after pericardiocentesis, is a rare complication of pericardiocentesis. Stress cardiomyopathy, caused by excess catecholamine response resulting in left ventricular dysfunction and elevated cardiac enzymes, can overlap with pericardial decompression syndrome, and both might belong to the same spectrum of disease. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

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2020
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