Haemopericardium causing cardiac tamponade: a late complication of pectus excavatum repair.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A 24 year old man presented to the emergency department with clinical signs of cardiac tamponade requiring emergency surgery. The cause was a sternal wire from a pectus excavatum repair two years previously that had fractured and migrated through the pericardium causing an epicardial injury and a haemopericardium.
Medical subject headings
- Bone Wires
- Cardiac Tamponade
- Foreign-Body Migration
- Funnel Chest
- Pericardial Effusion
- Postoperative Complications