RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Haemopericardium causing cardiac tamponade: a late complication of pectus excavatum repair
JF Heart
JO Heart
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
SP e22
OP e22
DO 10.1136/hrt.2003.029983
VO 90
IS 4
A1 M J Barakat
A1 J A Morgan
YR 2004
UL http://heart.bmj.com/content/90/4/e22.abstract
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.