title: Cardiac tamponade due to coronary artery erosion.
abstract: 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.
authors: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. s.marasco@alfred.org.au
authors: Silvana
authors: S
authors: Marasco
authors: Mark
authors: M
authors: Fitzgerald
authors: Marco
authors: M
authors: Larobina
authors: Donald
authors: D
authors: Esmore
mesh_terms: 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