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A woman in her 20s with syncope

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However, if you freeze the ultrasound clip and scroll forwards and backwards to find a time during the clip where the patient’s mitral valve is open, you know the heart is filling, and is therefore in diastole. The second most common cause of medical cardiac tamponade is acute idiopathic pericarditis. J Am Soc Echocardiogr.