Cardiac Temponade And It's Echo Findings

Cardiac tamponade results from an accumulation of pericardial fluid under pressure, leading to impaired cardiac filling and haemodynamic compromise. A compression of the heart due to pericardial effusion. Cardiac tamponade typically leads to crisis by decreasing venous return, which impairs diastolic ventricular filling. If the tamponade is untreated, hemodynamic compromise can lead to the diminishing cardiac output. Therefore, as a continuum, cardiac tamponade constitutes a medical emergency. The main causes of cardiac tamponade include percutaneous cardiac interventions,malignacies, infectious/inflammatory causes,mechanical complications of myocardial infarction and aortic dissection. The diagnosis of cardiac tamponade is a clinical cab be done by worsening dyspnoea, distended jugular veins, muffled heart sounds , and should be confirmed by echocardiography. Cardiac tamponade is a life-threatening syndrome that requires urgent treatment by pericardiocentesis.Pericardiocentesis is an interventional technique to drain pericardial fluid by percutaneous route.