Heart Rhythm
Volume 2, Issue 11 , Pages 1224-1230 , November 2005

Decrease in fluoroscopic cardiac silhouette excursion precedes hemodynamic compromise in intraprocedural tamponade

  • Kumaraswamy Nanthakumar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Disease, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Kumaraswamy Nanthakumar, MD, Division of Cardiology, University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, 150 Gerrard Street West, PMCC 3-522, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 2C4
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  • G. Neal Kay, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Vance J. Plumb, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Xiangsheng Zheng, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Cheryl R. Killingsworth, DVM

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • William M. Smith, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Raymond E. Ideker, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Andrew E. Epstein, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • David Lan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Philip L. Johnson, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Received 8 May 2005 ,Accepted 2 August 2005.

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PII: S1547-5271(05)01894-1

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2005.08.002

Heart Rhythm
Volume 2, Issue 11 , Pages 1224-1230 , November 2005

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