Cardiac tamponade cardiac catheterization


 * Associate Editor-In-Chief: Varun Kumar, M.B.B.S.

Cardiac Catheterization

 * There is equalization of pressures in all four chambers of heart. The right atrial pressure equals the right ventricular end diastolic pressure equals the pulmonary artery diastolic pressure(10-30mm Hg).
 * Diminished pulsations of cardiac silhouette on fluoroscopy
 * Low pressure cardiac tamponade with intracardiac diastolic pressures of 6-12mm Hg may be seen in patients who are hypovolemic at presentation.