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Cardiac tamponade: contrast reflux as an indicator of cardiac chamber equalization
BACKGROUND: Traumatic hemopericardium remains a rare entity; it does however commonly cause cardiac tamponade which remains a major cause of death in traumatic blunt cardiac injury. OBJECTIVES: We present a case of blunt chest trauma complicated by cardiac tamponade causing cardiac chamber equalizat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3403874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22651687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-48 |
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author | Nauta, Foeke Jacob Harmen Borstlap, Wernard Aat Antoine Stella, Michael Khalpey, Zain |
author_facet | Nauta, Foeke Jacob Harmen Borstlap, Wernard Aat Antoine Stella, Michael Khalpey, Zain |
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description | BACKGROUND: Traumatic hemopericardium remains a rare entity; it does however commonly cause cardiac tamponade which remains a major cause of death in traumatic blunt cardiac injury. OBJECTIVES: We present a case of blunt chest trauma complicated by cardiac tamponade causing cardiac chamber equalization revealed by reflux of contrast. CASE REPORT: A 29-year-old unidentified male suffered blunt chest trauma in a motor vehicle collision. Computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a periaortic hematoma and hemopericardium. Significant contrast reflux was seen in the inferior vena cava and hepatic veins suggesting a change in cardiac chamber pressures. After intensive treatment including cardiac massage this patient expired of cardiac arrest. CONCLUSION: Reflux of contrast on CT imaging can be an indicator of traumatic cardiac tamponade. |
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spelling | pubmed-34038742012-07-25 Cardiac tamponade: contrast reflux as an indicator of cardiac chamber equalization Nauta, Foeke Jacob Harmen Borstlap, Wernard Aat Antoine Stella, Michael Khalpey, Zain J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: Traumatic hemopericardium remains a rare entity; it does however commonly cause cardiac tamponade which remains a major cause of death in traumatic blunt cardiac injury. OBJECTIVES: We present a case of blunt chest trauma complicated by cardiac tamponade causing cardiac chamber equalization revealed by reflux of contrast. CASE REPORT: A 29-year-old unidentified male suffered blunt chest trauma in a motor vehicle collision. Computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a periaortic hematoma and hemopericardium. Significant contrast reflux was seen in the inferior vena cava and hepatic veins suggesting a change in cardiac chamber pressures. After intensive treatment including cardiac massage this patient expired of cardiac arrest. CONCLUSION: Reflux of contrast on CT imaging can be an indicator of traumatic cardiac tamponade. BioMed Central 2012-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3403874/ /pubmed/22651687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-48 Text en Copyright ©2012 Nauta et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Nauta, Foeke Jacob Harmen Borstlap, Wernard Aat Antoine Stella, Michael Khalpey, Zain Cardiac tamponade: contrast reflux as an indicator of cardiac chamber equalization |
title | Cardiac tamponade: contrast reflux as an indicator of cardiac chamber equalization |
title_full | Cardiac tamponade: contrast reflux as an indicator of cardiac chamber equalization |
title_fullStr | Cardiac tamponade: contrast reflux as an indicator of cardiac chamber equalization |
title_full_unstemmed | Cardiac tamponade: contrast reflux as an indicator of cardiac chamber equalization |
title_short | Cardiac tamponade: contrast reflux as an indicator of cardiac chamber equalization |
title_sort | cardiac tamponade: contrast reflux as an indicator of cardiac chamber equalization |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3403874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22651687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-48 |
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