Haemopericardium causing cardiac tamponade: a late complication of pectus excavatum repair.
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.
Barakat
M J
MJ
Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK. mbarakat@blueyonder.co.uk
Morgan
J A
JA
D000328:Adult; D001864:Bone Wires; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D004638:Emergency Treatment; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications*; D005660:Funnel Chest / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed