TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 18. Pericardial Diseases
A1  - Shiber, Joseph R.
A2  - Farcy, David A.
A2  - Chiu, William C.
A2  - Flaxman, Alex
A2  - Marshall, John P.
PY  - 2012
T2  - Critical Care Emergency Medicine
AB  - In  the  16th  century,  Vesalius  first  described  the  anatomy  of  the  pericardium.  In  1674,  John  Mayow  gave  the  earliest  account  of  constrictive  pericarditis:  “the  heart  was  nearly  covered  by  cartilage,  adherent  to  its  interior  so  that  blood  could  scarcely  enter.”  Richard  Lower  in  1689  accurately  described  tamponade:  “a  profuse  effusion  oppresses  and  inundates  the  heart.  The  walls  of  the  heart  are  so  compressed  by  the  fluid  circling  everywhere,  so  that  the  heart  cannot  dilate  sufficiently  to  receive  the  blood,  then  the  pulse  becomes  exceedingly  small,  thence  succeed  syncope  and  death  itself.”1  Franz  Schuh  did  the  first  successful  pericadiocentesis  in  1840;  Churchill  performed  the  first  pericardiectomy  in  the  United  States  in  1929.  Claude  Beck  described  his  triad  of  findings  in  tamponade  in  1935.  In  1954,  Edler  demonstrated  a  pericardial  effusion  by  ultrasound,  and  in  1971  Spodick  described  the  EKG  findings  associated  with  pericarditis.1,2  
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Y2  - 2024/04/18
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