Massive Cardiac Tamponade in Uremic Pericarditis with Complete Recovery

Abstract

IT has been known for many years that uremic pericarditis has the most unfavorable prognosis of all the various clinical manifestations of chronic renal disease.1 That pericardial effusion may result in cardiac tamponade as a terminal event in the course of uremic pericarditis was pointed out recently by Goodner and Brown.2 However, these authors, on the basis of autopsy findings, suggested that this complication is a potentially reversible one, and that its prompt recognition and treatment may be lifesaving.This point was demonstrated by Guild, Bray and Merrill,3 who reported 2 cases of cardiac tamponade from hemopericardium in patients with . . .