https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2022.2253

Transient left ventricular dysfunction after therapeutic pericardiocentesis - Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or pericardial decompression syndrome

Vol. 92 No. 4 (2022)
Submitted: March 1, 2022
Accepted: March 29, 2022
Published: April 1, 2022
stress cardiomyopathy, cardiac tamponade, lv dysfunction
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Jaikrit Bhutani
sukjai2002@gmail.com
Department of Cardiology, Holy Heart Hospital, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Aditya Batra
Department of Cardiology, Holy Heart Hospital, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Ashu Gupta
Department of Cardiology, Holy Heart Hospital, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Anshul Gupta
Department of Cardiology, Holy Heart Hospital, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Kunal Mahajan
Department of Cardiology, Holy Heart Hospital, Rohtak, Haryana, India.

We present a case of reversible left ventricular (LV) dysfunction with characteristic stress or "Takotsubo" cardiomyopathy (SCM) after therapeutic pericardiocentesis in a patient with tubercular pericardial effusion. SCM following pericardiocentesis is uncommon, as opposed to the well-defined entity, pericardial decompression syndrome (PDS). PDS is defined as a paradoxical deterioration of hemodynamics and development of severe biventricular dysfunction, cardiogenic shock, and pulmonary edema after uneventful, often large volume pericardiocentesis in patients of pericardial effusion. 

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Bhutani, Jaikrit, Aditya Batra, Ashu Gupta, Anshul Gupta, and Kunal Mahajan. 2022. “Transient Left Ventricular Dysfunction After Therapeutic Pericardiocentesis - Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy or Pericardial Decompression Syndrome”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 92 (4). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2022.2253.
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