Cardiac tamponade caused by broken sternal wire after pectus excavatum repair: a case report.
Complications of pectus excavatum surgery include pneumothorax, pleuritis, hemothorax, pericardial effusion, displacement of bar, pericarditis and cardiac injury, etc. This is the case of a 15-year-old boy with cardiac tamponade caused by pericarditis who had taken the operation for a pectus excavatum repair one year previously. The cause was a sternal wire which was used for attachment of the bar to sternum that had fractured and migrated through the pericardium causing a pericardial injury and a pericarditis.
Department of Radiology, Chungbuk National University Hospital, Cheongju, Korea.
Soo Hyun
SH
Lee
Bum Sang
BS
Cho
Sung Jin
SJ
Kim
Seung Young
SY
Lee
Min Ho
MH
Kang
Gi Seok
GS
Han
Sang-Hoon
SH
Cha
D000293:Adolescent; D001864:Bone Wires / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D020878:Device Removal; D004867:Equipment Design; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005660:Funnel Chest / Q000601:surgery*; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D010496:Pericardium / Q000293:injuries; D012086:Reoperation; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome