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What are your management strategies for malignant pericardial effusion with a high risk of spontaneous hemorrhage, particularly in patients requiring anticoagulation for chronic atrial fibrillation?

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Cardiology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

We have many patients with malignant pericardial effusion who tolerate anticoagulation for DVT/PE/afib. In those patients, when AC is restarted (for example after pericardiocentesis), close monitoring with serial echo in a few days would be performed to see if effusion reaccumulates faster. Also, th...

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