Heavier than water intraocular tamponades have several theoretical advantages over conventional tamponades, especially in the treatment of complicated retinal detachments and proliferative ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Air could be a safe and affordable alternative to gas for tamponade during retinal ...

Liquid perfluorocarbons were introduced in medicine in 1966 and were first injected into the vitreous cavity by Haidet and colleagues. The interest in them soon grew and their toxic effects on the ...

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of Densiron 68 ® in the clinical management of complex vitreoretinal cases with inferior retinal pathology. We present a prospective interventional non-comparative ...

After treating cardiac tamponade arising from atrial fibrillation (Afib) catheter ablation, pericardial drains do not need to be kept in place for an additional 12 to 24 hours, researchers suggested.

In the small percentage of patients undergoing TAVR who have a preexisting unruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), there appears to be increased risks of both aortic dissection and cardiac ...

Cardiac tamponade is an uncommon, but life-threatening complication of percutaneous coronary intervention. It occurs twice as frequently after the use of atheroablative devices compared with ...

PERICARDIAL inflammation is a relatively common complication of uremia. Although its occurrence seems superficially related to the degree of renal failure the pathogenesis is still obscure. The ...

IT has been known for many years that uremic pericarditis has the most unfavorable prognosis of all the various clinical manifestations of chronic renal disease. 1 That pericardial effusion may result ...

More than one third of patients with PCI-related cardiac tamponade develop the first hemodynamic signs several hours after PCI. These late-presenting cases are often a diagnostic challenge at the ...