BACKGROUND Traumatic hemopericardium remains a rare entity; it does however commonly cause cardiac tamponade which remains a major cause of death in traumatic blunt cardiac injury. OBJECTIVES We present a case of blunt chest trauma complicated by cardiac tamponade causing cardiac chamber equalization revealed by reflux of contrast. CASE REPORT A 29-year-old unidentified male suffered blunt ...

Cardiac tamponade resulting from hemopericardium after a thoracic trauma is a relatively common occurrence. We report on 2 cases of extrapericardial cardiac tamponade, a condition that is definitely less common although potentially life threatening. Both patients underwent sternotomic cardiac decompression and were transferred to ICU: the first patient died of neurological damage, the second pa...

Cardiac physiologic changes during pregnancy may cause risky delivery in patients with congenital cardiac anomalies. In this case, we present the anesthesia management emergency cesarean section a pregnant woman c-TGA who develop tamponade and sudden death risk due to pericardial effusion.

Background: Pericardial involvement, with subsequent effusion and cardiac tamponade, may be a metastatic manifestation of an advanced lung carcinoma. These neoplastic pericardial effusions are usually asymptomatic and often times being diagnosed at an autopsy. We report on a 44-year-old woman who presented with cardiac tamponade and further investigations revealed a metastasis from the lung can...

Cardiac tamponade secondary to blunt cardiac injury is an extremely serious and life-threatening condition that the emergency physician is required to make definitive and appropriate management and resuscitation. Although blunt cardiac injury includes a wide spectrum of pathological conditions, cardiac tamponade due to blunt trauma is rarely seen because most of the patients with cardiac ruptur...

cardiac rupture, particularly rupture of the left ventricular wall, has a very high mortality rate. in this occasion, even if injured patients being alive when carried to the hospital, many of them will die due to following possible reasons: severe bleeding, cardiac tamponade, wasting time for routine and usual diagnostic procedures or transferring the injured to other hospital equipped for car...

We have identified pericardial effusion by echocardiography in 174 patients. Seventeen had cardiac tamponade which was not always clinically obvious. Right ventricular narrowing or compression, occurring in the minor axis at end diastole and end expiration, to 7 +/- 2 mm or less, was strongly associated with tamponade in patients with effusion. Right ventricular compression and signs of tampona...

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Pericardial effusion is a common finding in clinical practice either as incidental finding or manifestation of a systemic or cardiac disease. The spectrum of pericardial effusions ranges from mild asymptomatic effusions to cardiac tamponade. The aetiology is varied (infectious, neoplastic, autoimmune, metabolic, and drug-related), being tuberculosis the leading cause of pericardial effusions in...

We report a case of a 75-year-old male with history of lung adenocarcinoma who presented with shortness of breath and frequent episodes of cough-induced syncope. A large pericardial effusion was found on echocardiogram suggestive of cardiac tamponade. Pericardiocentesis was done which improved the dyspnea and eventually resolved the syncope. There are only two other cases reported in the litera...