A Tight Squeeze

Deepak Atri, MD; Claire Shappell, MD; Paul B. Dieffenbach, MD; Yee-Ping Sun, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Jun 2019)

A Tight Squeeze

Deepak Atri, MD,
Claire Shappell, MD,
Paul B. Dieffenbach, MD,
Yee-Ping Sun, MD

Affiliations

Deepak Atri, MD: Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Address for correspondence: Dr. Deepak Atri, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Claire Shappell, MD: Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Massachusetts
Paul B. Dieffenbach, MD: Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Massachusetts
Yee-Ping Sun, MD: Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 70 – 72

Abstract

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Cardiac tamponade is a rare cause of shock in the medical intensive care unit. This paper describes the case of a focal cardiac tamponade caused by compression of the left atrium due to an esophageal stent. Echocardiography yielded a diagnosis when other diagnostic methods did not. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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