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Disease Information for Pericardial effusion
- Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- PMI Displaced Lateral
- Apical heart impulse/medial displacement
- Apical impulse absent
- Bilateral ankle swelling
- Bilateral leg edema/swelling
- Cardiac Symptoms/Signs
- Cardiomegaly/Heart dilatation
- Chest Pain
- Chest pain, substernal/midline
- Distended neck veins
- Falling blood pressure/progessive/signs
- Heart border dullness increased
- Hepatojugular reflux
- Jugular Veins Increased Volume
- Jugular Venous Distension
- Jugular venous pressure increased
- Kussmaul venous pressure/Increases on inspiration/paradox
- Left heart border/displaced left/percussion
- Low Blood Pressure
- Muffled heart sounds
- Non-Pleuritic Chest Pain
- Paradoxical pulse/Pulses paradoxicus
- PMI inside left Cardiac Border
- Postural Hypotension Non-neural
- Quiet heart/soft sounds/distant
- Tachycardia/Fast heart rate
- Dysphagia Swallowing Difficulties
- Palpable Liver/Hepatomegaly
- Edema of Lower Extremities
- Weak/Weak as a kitten (symptom)
- Bronchial breath sounds
- Consolidation left base/signs
- Cough
- Dullness to percussion lung base
- Dyspnea
- Dyspnea/upright position/platypnea
- Ewarts sign/left lung base egophony
- Localized dullness to percussion
- Lung signs/abnormality
- Orthopnea
- Shortness of breath/SOB
- Enervated/extreme acute fatigue
- Weakness
- Weakness non-neuromuscular/systemic
- Demographics & Risk Factors
- Established Disease Population
- Patient/Pericarditis
- Patient/Hypothyroidism (myxedema)
- Laboratory Tests
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased
- Pericardial Fluid Abnormal
- Diagnostic Test Results
- Other Tests & Procedures
- TEST/Cardiac output decreased/(Frick type/ice water/dye)
- Isotope Scan
- MUGA Scan/Diastolic first derivative slow
- EKG (ECG)
- EKG/Low voltage all leads (ECG)
- EKG/Non-specific ST-T Wave changes (ECG)
- EKG/Pericarditis-like ST-T segments (ECG)
- EKG/ST elevation/no reciprocal depression (ECG)
- EKG/ST-T changes (ECG)
- EKG/Electrical alternans (ECG)
- EKG/Low voltage/chest leads (ECG)
- EKG/Low voltage/limb leads (ECG)
- CT Scan
- CT Scan/Mediastinal Abnormality/Chest
- X-RAY
- Fluoroscopy/Ventricular pulse diminished force
- Xray/Cardiomegaly/Chest
- Xray/Chest abnormal
- Xray/Large heart shadow/Chest
- Xray/Pseudocardiomegaly/Chest
- Xray/Azygos vein enlarged/Chest
- Xray/Chest film/extrapulmonary abnormal
- Xray/Chest/Lung fields/Abnormal
- Xray/Pleural fluid/Chest
- Xray/Water bottle heart silhouette/Chest
- Xray/Wide mediastinum/Chest
- X-RAY With contrast
- UGI/Esophagus extrinsic defect
- Ultrasound
- Echo/Distended IVC/Vena cava
- Echo/Echocardiogram Abnormal
- Echo/Normal IVC collapse absent
- Echo/Pericardial disease
- Echo/Pericardial fluid
- Ultrasound/IVC Fails Collapse on Inspiration
- Associated Diseases & Rule outs
- Rule Outs
- Cardiomyopathy, congested
- Associated Disease & Complications
- Cardiogenic shock
- Compression of Esophagus/Extraluminal
- Edema
- Hypotension
- Orthostatic hypotension syndrome
- Pericardial effusion
- Pleural Effusion
- Tamponade, cardiac/pericardial
- Cardiac death, sudden
- Disease Mechanism & Classification
- Class
- CLASS/Cardiovascular (category)
- CLASS/Pericardial disorder (ex)
- CLASS/Serosal disorder (ex)
- Pathophysiology
- Pathophysiology/Diastolic-type heart failure/poor filling
- Pathophysiology/High cardiac filling pressures/venous return
- Process
- PROCESS/Reference organ/system (category)
- PROCESS/Structural/anatomic/foreign body (category)
- Treatment
- Other Treatments
- TX/Pericardiocentesis.
- Definition
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An abnormal collection of fluid inside the sac that covers the heart.
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