PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - M J Barakat AU - J A Morgan TI - Haemopericardium causing cardiac tamponade: a late complication of pectus excavatum repair AID - 10.1136/hrt.2003.029983 DP - 2004 Apr 01 TA - Heart PG - e22--e22 VI - 90 IP - 4 4099 - http://heart.bmj.com/content/90/4/e22.short 4100 - http://heart.bmj.com/content/90/4/e22.full SO - Heart2004 Apr 01; 90 AB - A 24 year old man presented to the emergency department with clinical signs of cardiac tamponade requiring emergency surgery. The cause was a sternal wire from a pectus excavatum repair two years previously that had fractured and migrated through the pericardium causing an epicardial injury and a haemopericardium.