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Air tamponade of the heart

Pneumopericardium is a rare disease defined as the presence of air or gas in the pericardial sac. Among the etiological factors, the following stand out: chest trauma, barotrauma, air-containing fistulas between the pericardium and the surrounding structures, secondary gas production by microorganis...

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Autores principales: Gołota, Janusz J., Orłowski, Tadeusz, Iwanowicz, Katarzyna, Snarska, Jadwiga
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27516791
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2016.61052
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author Gołota, Janusz J.
Orłowski, Tadeusz
Iwanowicz, Katarzyna
Snarska, Jadwiga
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description Pneumopericardium is a rare disease defined as the presence of air or gas in the pericardial sac. Among the etiological factors, the following stand out: chest trauma, barotrauma, air-containing fistulas between the pericardium and the surrounding structures, secondary gas production by microorganisms growing in the pericardial sac, and iatrogenic factors. Until now, spontaneous pneumopericardium has been considered a harmless and temporary state, but a review of clinical cases indicates that the presence of air in the pericardium can lead to cardiac tamponade and life-threatening hemodynamic disturbances. We present the case of an 80-year-old patient with a chronic bronchopericardial fistula, who suffered from a cardiac arrest due to air tamponade of the heart.
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spelling pubmed-49712732016-08-11 Air tamponade of the heart Gołota, Janusz J. Orłowski, Tadeusz Iwanowicz, Katarzyna Snarska, Jadwiga Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol Case Report Pneumopericardium is a rare disease defined as the presence of air or gas in the pericardial sac. Among the etiological factors, the following stand out: chest trauma, barotrauma, air-containing fistulas between the pericardium and the surrounding structures, secondary gas production by microorganisms growing in the pericardial sac, and iatrogenic factors. Until now, spontaneous pneumopericardium has been considered a harmless and temporary state, but a review of clinical cases indicates that the presence of air in the pericardium can lead to cardiac tamponade and life-threatening hemodynamic disturbances. We present the case of an 80-year-old patient with a chronic bronchopericardial fistula, who suffered from a cardiac arrest due to air tamponade of the heart. Termedia Publishing House 2016-06-30 2016-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4971273/ /pubmed/27516791 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2016.61052 Text en Copyright © 2016 Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (Polskie Towarzystwo KardioTorakochirurgów) and the editors of the Polish Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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