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Echocardiography in pericardial effusion

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  • echo free zone surrounding the heart
  • diastolic collapse of the right ventricular outflow tract and atria
  • an increase in respiratory variation in velocity of flow in mitral and tricuspid valves
  • presystolic closure of the aortic valve
  • enlarged inferior vena cava
  • reversed flow in the systemic veins

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