title: [Pitfalls in tamponade: main error causes in the clinical and echocardiographic diagnosis].
abstract: The diagnosis of tamponade is confirmed by Doppler echocardiography. Early examination by this means is capital which implies easy access to this facility whenever the clinician suspects this condition. The diagnostic value of classical clinical and Doppler echocardiographic signs requires a model of circumferential pericardial effusion exerting compressive effects in the context of spontaneous ventilation. The underlying pathologies, assisted, ventilation, localised pericardial effusions, are responsible for over- or under-diagnostic errors.
authors.affiliation: CHU, domaine universitaire du Sart-Tilman, service de soins intensifs généraux, B 35, 4000 Liège.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Canivet
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000175:diagnosis; D014463:Ultrasonography