Análisis de las características clínicas, ecocardiográficas, microbiológicas y citopatológicas de derrames pericárdicos en un hospital de tercer nivel de atención

Abstract

The prevalence of pericardial effusion in a tertiary care hospital was 1.1%, the main cause was neoplastic. In the evaluation of moderate or severe pericardial effusion we found that right atrial and ventricular collapses were the most common echocardiographic findings. The cytopathological study had a high specificity for the diagnosis of neoplasia.