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Pericardial drainage successfully resolved symptoms of cardiac tamponade caused by carcinomatous pericarditis from gastric cancer, with the patient surviving 12 months without re-accumulation.
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Cardiac tamponade due to carcinomatous pericarditis can rarely occur as a late recurrence of gastric cancer and requires prompt recognition and drainage, which can provide symptom relief and prolonged survival.
Drainage may relieve tamponade in rare gastric cancer pericarditis; single case leaves open generalizability and optimal management.
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Nakatani et al. (2015) conducted a case report in Cardiac tamponade caused by carcinomatous pericarditis originating from gastric cancer (n=1). Pericardial drainage was evaluated on Symptom resolution and survival. Pericardial drainage successfully resolved symptoms of cardiac tamponade caused by carcinomatous pericarditis from gastric cancer, with the patient surviving 12 months without re-accumulation.
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