TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE JOURNAL, vol.31, no.4, pp.398-403, 2004 (SCI-Expanded)
In 50 patients treated from January 1998 through March 2002 for pericardial effusion and tamponade, we retrospectively investigated the efficacy of percutanecus placement of an indwelling pericardial catheter guided by 2-dimensional echocardiography and fluoroscopy We also investigated causation.