Background Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is an underdiagnosed, progressive and lethal disease. Machine learning applied to common ...

The clinical diagnosis of acute pericarditis is based on simple criteria: typical chest pain, pericardial friction rub (Figure 2), widespread ST-segment elevation (Figure 3) and pericardial ...

Cardiac tamponade as the initial presentation of hypothyroidism is extremely rare. We report the case of a 48-year-old man admitted for acute respiratory distress, with cardiac ultrasound showing ...

Correspondence to Dr. Allan L Klein, Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pericardial Diseases, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio ...

Electrocardiographic changes are common and typically evolve through four stages: Stage I: diffuse ST-segment elevation (typically concave up) and PR-segment depression are recorded in the first ...

After 5 days, a new echocardiogram was performed, revealing a 36.4% EF, as well as diffuse hypokinesia and moderate pericardial effusion. Transthoracic echocardiogram with altered left ventricular ...

On Thursday, however, Keros reported that it had detected “unanticipated” cases of pericardial effusion in the study, a complication that is characterized as the abnormal accumulation of fluid around ...

This is called pericardial effusion. If the amount of fluid increases quickly ... Often changes may occur from pericarditis. Echocardiography (echo). A test that uses sound waves (ultrasound) to make ...

Serositis findings (pleural effusion and pericardial effusion) were obtained using echocardiography and CT imaging methods. The anticardiolipin antibody (aCL) IGM-IGG and anti-beta2 glycoprotein I ...