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We report outcomes from a contemporary case series of eight patients who presented with malignant cardiac tamponade due to NSCLC to an Australian academic medical institution over an 18 months period. Two cases of cardiac tamponade were de novo presentations of NSCLC and six cases were presentations following previous therapy for NSCLC. The median survival was 4.5 months with a range between 9 days to alive beyond 17 months. The two longest survivors are still receiving active therapy at 17 and 15 months after invasive surgical pericardial window respectively. One survivor had a histological subtype of large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma and the other received targeted therapy for epidermal growth factor receptor mutation. These results support the consideration of active surgical palliation to treating this oncological emergency complicating NSCLC, including the use of urgent drainage, surgical creation of pericardial window followed by appropriate systemic therapy in suitably fit patients.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm4010075","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,30]],"date-time":"2014-12-30T09:42:58Z","timestamp":1419932578000},"page":"75-84","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Malignant Cardiac Tamponade from Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Case Series from the Era of Molecular  Targeted Therapy"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"4","author":[{"given":"Bob","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, Sydney, Australia"},{"name":"Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Antonia","family":"Pearson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, Sydney, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nick","family":"Pavlakis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, Sydney, Australia"},{"name":"Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Bell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, Sydney, Australia"},{"name":"Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Adrian","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, Sydney, Australia"},{"name":"Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Chan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, Sydney, Australia"},{"name":"Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Harden","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, Sydney, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Manu","family":"Mathur","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, Sydney, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Marshman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, Sydney, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Peter","family":"Brady","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, Sydney, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Stephen","family":"Clarke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, NSW 2065, Sydney, Australia"},{"name":"Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1697","DOI":"10.1002\/1097-0142(19800401)45:7<1697::AID-CNCR2820450730>3.0.CO;2-J","article-title":"Cardiac tamponade as a presentation of extracardiac malignancy","volume":"45","author":"Fraser","year":"1980","journal-title":"Cancer"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1456","DOI":"10.1002\/1097-0142(19900315)65:6<1456::AID-CNCR2820650634>3.0.CO;2-5","article-title":"Cardiac metastases","volume":"65","author":"Klatt","year":"1990","journal-title":"Cancer"},{"key":"ref_3","first-page":"1027","article-title":"Tumors of the heart. 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