title: [The efficacy of transesophageal echocardiography during the pericardial drainage of the cardiac tamponade after cardiac surgery].
abstract: For two cases of cardiac tamponade following cardiac surgery, the approaches for pericardial drainage were determined by the transesophageal echocardiography under general anesthesia. In most cases of cardiac tamponade after cardiac surgery the pericardial effusion is regional and localized due to adhesions of pericardium. Therefore subxiphoid incision approach of pericardial drainage cannot often be accomplished. In these cases transesophageal echocardiography can image the presence, location and size of the pericardial effusion and is an available method to determine the approach of pericardial drainage.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, National Cardiovascular Center, Suita.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kikumoto
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohnishi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuro
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D004322:Drainage; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*