Pericardial hematoma after blunt chest trauma
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Pericardial hematoma after blunt chest trauma.
e s a d p w a o As previously described, bleeding into the pericardium after a blunt chest trauma can initiate a process of inflammation, calcification and scarring that can eventually result in constrictive pericarditis. We present the case of a 36-year-old man who was referred to our hospital from another institution for cardiac MRI study with echocardiographic suspicion of constrictive peric...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0870-2551
DOI: 10.1016/j.repc.2012.02.015