Clinical Features

Investigations

Echocardiographic Features of Tamponade

  • Echocardiographic features may preced clinical symptoms
  • Echo findings include:
    • Moderate to large pericardial fluid
    • RA early systolic collapse
    • RV early diastolic collapse
    • Lack of respiratory variation in IVC and hepatic veins
    • Bowing of IV septum into the LV

Sources