Cardiac tamponade due to coronary artery erosion.
This report describes two patients with cardiac tamponade secondary to bleeding from a coronary artery, which had been eroded by a foreign body. In one patient the foreign body had been ingested and in the other patient, the cause was iatrogenic. This report highlights varied and unusual causes of cardiac tamponade.
Marasco
Silvana
S
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. s.marasco@alfred.org.au
Fitzgerald
Mark
M
Larobina
Marco
M
Esmore
Donald
D
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male