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Delayed Tamponade after Traumatic Wound with Left Ventricular Compression

Delayed cardiac tamponade after a penetrating chest injury is a rare complication. The clinical diagnosis of tamponade is facilitated with imaging. We present a case report of a 23-year-old male who was brought to emergency after multiple stab wounds to the chest. After resuscitation and repair of l...

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Autores principales: Almehmadi, Fahad, Chandy, Mark, Connelly, Kim A., Edwards, Jeremy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5019924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27651957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2154748
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description Delayed cardiac tamponade after a penetrating chest injury is a rare complication. The clinical diagnosis of tamponade is facilitated with imaging. We present a case report of a 23-year-old male who was brought to emergency after multiple stab wounds to the chest. After resuscitation and repair of laceration of right internal mammary artery and right ventricle, he was discharged but later returned with shortness of breath. Echocardiography revealed a rare case of delayed pericardial tamponade causing left ventricular collapse. The pericardial effusion was treated with emergent pericardiocentesis and later required a thoracoscopy guided pericardial window for definitive management.
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spelling pubmed-50199242016-09-20 Delayed Tamponade after Traumatic Wound with Left Ventricular Compression Almehmadi, Fahad Chandy, Mark Connelly, Kim A. Edwards, Jeremy Case Rep Cardiol Case Report Delayed cardiac tamponade after a penetrating chest injury is a rare complication. The clinical diagnosis of tamponade is facilitated with imaging. We present a case report of a 23-year-old male who was brought to emergency after multiple stab wounds to the chest. After resuscitation and repair of laceration of right internal mammary artery and right ventricle, he was discharged but later returned with shortness of breath. Echocardiography revealed a rare case of delayed pericardial tamponade causing left ventricular collapse. The pericardial effusion was treated with emergent pericardiocentesis and later required a thoracoscopy guided pericardial window for definitive management. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5019924/ /pubmed/27651957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2154748 Text en Copyright © 2016 Fahad Almehmadi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Delayed Tamponade after Traumatic Wound with Left Ventricular Compression
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title_short Delayed Tamponade after Traumatic Wound with Left Ventricular Compression
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