Cardiac tamponade occurs when a pericardial effusion exerts a significant amount of pressure externally on the heart, resulting in impaired right ventricular filling eventually causing decreased ...

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 ...

Until then, the long-term efficacy of ablation in maintaining sinus rhythm and the effects on ... still include death, stroke and cardiac tamponade. Indeed, for the period 2003–2006, the ...