Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Air could be a safe and affordable alternative to gas for tamponade during retinal ...

Heavier than water intraocular tamponades have several theoretical advantages over conventional tamponades, especially in the treatment of complicated retinal detachments and proliferative ...

Liquid perfluorocarbons were introduced in medicine in 1966 and were first injected into the vitreous cavity by Haidet and colleagues. The interest in them soon grew and their toxic effects on the ...

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.

In the small percentage of patients undergoing TAVR who have a preexisting unruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), there appears to be increased risks of both aortic dissection and cardiac ...

More than one third of patients with PCI-related cardiac tamponade develop the first hemodynamic signs several hours after PCI. These late-presenting cases are often a diagnostic challenge at the ...

Becton, Dickinson and Company BDX, popularly known as BD, along with its subsidiary C.R. Bard Urology and Critical Care, recently issued an urgent update regarding the use of its esophagogastric ...

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 ...

Boston, MA - Pulsus paradoxus is no longer a paradox, but it may be among the most reliable of the traditional clinical signs suggesting cardiac tamponade "when faced with a patient with pericardial ...

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 ...