Localised cardiac tamponade caused by intrapericardial haematoma: a rare cause of ascites presenting 10 years after open heart surgery

12 patients with a high grade stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery (n = 10) or left circumflex coronary artery (n = 2), and an angiographically normal corresponding left circumflex artery or left anterior descending artery, respectively.

Intravenous glibenclamide, 0.05 mg/kg body weight

Baseline conditions (before glibenclamide administration)

Coronary blood flow velocity and calculated local coronary blood flow in normal and post-stenotic arteriessurrogate