Hemorrhagic cardiac tamponade: a clinicopathologic correlation.
Staphylococcus aureus pericarditis and recurrent episodes of hemorrhagic cardiac tamponade developed in a 31-year-old man. He later died of exsanguination and at autopsy was found to have a ruptured infective pseudoaneurysm of the aortic arch. When hemorrhagic pericardial effusions of undetermined cause are encountered, the heart and great vessels should be evaluated as potential sources of the hemorrhage.
D000328:Adult; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000473:pathology; D001025:Aortitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000473:pathology*; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*