PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - R Martin AU - A Mitchell AU - N Dhalla TI - Late pericardial tamponade and coronary arteriovenous fistula after trauma. AID - 10.1136/hrt.55.2.216 DP - 1986 Feb 01 TA - British Heart Journal PG - 216--218 VI - 55 IP - 2 4099 - http://heart.bmj.com/content/55/2/216.short 4100 - http://heart.bmj.com/content/55/2/216.full SO - Heart1986 Feb 01; 55 AB - A 48 year old man presented with cardiac tamponade six weeks after an apparently minor penetrating chest injury. Thoracotomy showed a haemopericardium with no actively bleeding vessel. Re-investigation eleven months later, prompted by persistent chest pain, showed the presence of a fistula between the second diagonal of the left anterior descending coronary artery and a cardiac vein.