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Delayed cardiac tamponade after open heart surgery - is supplemental CT imaging reasonable?

URN to cite this document:
urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-287724
DOI to cite this document:
10.5283/epub.28772
Floerchinger, Bernhard ; Camboni, Daniele ; Schopka, Simon ; Kolat, Philipp ; Hilker, Michael ; Schmid, Christof
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Abstract

Background: Cardiac tamponade is a severe complication after open heart surgery. Diagnostic imaging is challenging in postoperative patients, especially if tamponade develops with subacute symptoms. Hypothesizing that delayed tamponade after open heart surgery is not sufficiently detected by transthoracic echocardiography, in this study CT scans were used as standard reference and were compared ...

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