Late onset hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade from minor blunt chest trauma – a case report

Hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade following minor blunt trauma is a rare, life-threatening condition in children. Without high index of suspicion, diagnosis and intervention may be delayed as the link between the trauma and illness may be missed. We present a 12-year-old female in Nigeria, and...

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Autores principales: Tabansi, Petronilla N, Otaigbe, Barbara E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4405311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25914818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.216
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description Hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade following minor blunt trauma is a rare, life-threatening condition in children. Without high index of suspicion, diagnosis and intervention may be delayed as the link between the trauma and illness may be missed. We present a 12-year-old female in Nigeria, and highlight challenges in diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-44053112015-04-24 Late onset hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade from minor blunt chest trauma – a case report Tabansi, Petronilla N Otaigbe, Barbara E Clin Case Rep Case Reports Hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade following minor blunt trauma is a rare, life-threatening condition in children. Without high index of suspicion, diagnosis and intervention may be delayed as the link between the trauma and illness may be missed. We present a 12-year-old female in Nigeria, and highlight challenges in diagnosis. BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2015-04 2015-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4405311/ /pubmed/25914818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.216 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Late onset hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade from minor blunt chest trauma – a case report
title Late onset hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade from minor blunt chest trauma – a case report
title_full Late onset hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade from minor blunt chest trauma – a case report
title_fullStr Late onset hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade from minor blunt chest trauma – a case report
title_full_unstemmed Late onset hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade from minor blunt chest trauma – a case report
title_short Late onset hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade from minor blunt chest trauma – a case report
title_sort late onset hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade from minor blunt chest trauma – a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4405311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25914818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.216
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