Popli S, Ing T S, Daugirdas J T, Stroka G S, Osanloo E O, Vilbar R M, Pifarre R, Geis W P
J Dial. 1980;4(2-3):83-9. doi: 10.3109/08860228009065330.
Seven maintenance hemodialysis patients suffering from intractable uremic pericardial effusion were treated with instillation of a non-absorbable steroid, triamcinolone hexacetonide, into the pericardial sac via a large-bore catheter. The latter was placed under direct vision by subxiphoid pericardiotomy. All patients responded to the treatment while complications of the procedure were few and minor.