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PERICARDITI ed ENDOCARDITI - Università Gabriele d'Annunzio

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Hemodynamic changes during serial<br />

fluid withdrawals in a 22-year-old<br />

man with tamponade due to uremic<br />

pericarditis. Pulsus paradoxus is<br />

express<strong>ed</strong> as a percentage fall in<br />

systolic arterial pressure with<br />

inspiration. Note that significant<br />

pulsus paradoxus (>9% inspiratory<br />

fall in systolic blood pressure) and<br />

changes in cardiac output, heart<br />

rate, and stroke volume occur at the<br />

point of equilibrium of right<br />

ventricular diastolic pressure<br />

(RVEDP) and pericardial pressure.<br />

Asterisk indicates the pr<strong>ed</strong>ict<strong>ed</strong><br />

values assuming complete<br />

withdrawal.<br />

Catt<strong>ed</strong>ra di Cardiologia<br />

<strong>Università</strong> G. D’Annunzio Chieti

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