Case Report

Delayed post-cardiac-surgery tamponade producing localized right atrial compression

  1. Peter Marx BM,
  2. Carl Jaffe MD,
  3. Hillel Laks MD,
  4. Steven Wolf Son MD*

Article first published online: 24 OCT 2005

DOI: 10.1002/ccd.1810070307

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Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volume 7, Issue 3, pages 275–282, 1981

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Marx, P., Jaffe, C., Laks, H. and Son, S. W. (1981), Delayed post-cardiac-surgery tamponade producing localized right atrial compression. Cathet. Cardiovasc. Diagn., 7: 275–282. doi: 10.1002/ccd.1810070307

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  1. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

*60 Temple Street, New Haven, CT 06510

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 24 OCT 2005
  2. Article first published online: 24 OCT 2005
  3. Manuscript Revised: 27 JAN 1981
  4. Manuscript Received: 24 OCT 1980

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Keywords:

  • heart surgery;
  • cardiac tamponade;
  • catheterizatlon;
  • echocardlography;
  • blood coagulation

Abstract

A patient with dyspnea and lethargy 19 days after aortic valve replacement was admitted to the hospital with physical signs suggesting cardiac tamponade. Initial echocardiogram was unhelpful, but Swan-Ganz catheterizatlon showed a gradient in diastole between the right atrium and ventricle. Anglography and repeat echocardlography then showed a mass compressing the right atrium, which was confirmed at surgery.

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