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Exacerbated Tamponade: Deterioration of Cardiac Function by Lowering Excessive Arterial Pressure in Hypertensive Cardiac Tamponade

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1995

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Abstract

Patients with cardiac tamponade usually have significant hypotension; hypertension is rare. Before administering any medication during tamponade one must consider the complex physiology and compensatory mechanisms of cardiac compression [1]. We observed both an accentuation of pulsus paradoxus and retrospectively recognized fluctuations of left-ventricular function after progressively rising arterial blood pressure had been lowered.