When pericardial fluid accumulates slowly, the pericardium can expand to accommodate as much as 2 liters of fluid. However, when acute, only a small volume can increase intrapericardial pressures ...

Doctors at St. Barbara's Hospital in Sosnowiec, in Poland's southern Silesia region, say they have successfully used bovine pericardium—a membrane surrounding the heart of a cow—to reconstruct ...