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Isolated left ventricular tamponade is a rare cause of cardiogenic shock that can present as sub-acute decompensated heart failure months after cardiac surgery.
Highlights isolated left ventricular tamponade as a rare but important cause of cardiogenic shock in patients post-cardiac surgery.
Consider isolated LV tamponade in delayed post-surgical cardiogenic shock; case report leaves open questions on incidence and diagnosis.
We describe a patient nine months post-cardiac surgery with isolated left ventricular (LV) tamponade who presented with sub-acute decompensated heart failure and subsequently developed cardiogenic shock. The pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of isolated LV tamponade are reviewed.
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Ng et al. (2020) studied this question. Isolated left ventricular tamponade is a rare cause of cardiogenic shock that can present as sub-acute decompensated heart failure months after cardiac surgery.
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