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Revista Información Científica
versión On-line ISSN 1028-9933
Resumen
GONZALEZ HECHAVARRIA, José Antonio et al. Cardiac tamponade as a form of presentation of pericardial metastasis. Rev. inf. cient. [online]. 2018, vol.97, n.1, pp. 137-145. ISSN 1028-9933.
Introduction:
Cardiac tamponade may be the form of presentation of pericardial metastases of different neoplasms.
Objective:
to characterize aspects of interest in patients with cardiac tamponade from the intensive care unit of the Hospital "Dr. Agostinho Neto de Guantánamo during the period 2010-2016.
Method:
A descriptive, retrospective and longitudinal study was carried out. The following variables were studied: age, sex, state at discharge, complementary studies performed, semiodiagnostics and applied treatment.
Results:
the age of the patients was 66.5 ± 10.1 years; The majority were men (61.5%) and died (61.5%). All patients underwent haemochemistry, transthoracic echocardiography, pericardiocentesis, pericardial fluid (cytochemical, cytological and bacteriological) and chest X-rays. The most common causes were lung neoplasia (30.7%) and breast cancer (23.1%).
Conclusions:
cardiac tamponade is expressed as a form of presentation of malignant pericardial effusions, and this should be taken into account in a critically ill patient due to large pericardial effusion.
Palabras clave : cancer; malignant pericardial effusion; secondary cardiac tumor.