Electrical and Mechanical Alternation in Pericardial Effusion

Autor: Gabor, George E., Winsberg, Fred, Bloom, Henry S.
Zdroj: Chest; March 1971, Vol. 59 Issue: 3 p341-344, 4p
Abstrakt: In a case of traumatic pericardial effusion with electrical and mechanical alternation, ultrasonic cardiography demonstrated excessive oscillatory motion of the heart. This motion occurred in both anteroposterior and left-to-right directions. The frequency of the motion was half the pulse rate and thus readily explains the electrical alternation. Pericardiocentesis abolished both of these phenomena.
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