Population
1 patient with severe cardiac tamponade and pulsus paradoxus
Design
Case_report
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Suggests pericardial constraint drives pulsus paradoxus; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective confirmation.
In cardiac tamponade, pulsus paradoxus is primarily driven by ventricular competition for space within the distended pericardial sac during respiration.
Gabe et al. (1970) studied this question.
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