Traumatic retrosternal hematoma leading to extra-pericardial cardiac tamponade—Case report
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Heart failure due to a post-traumatic calcified pericardial hematoma.
Chest-wall trauma can produce bleeding into the pericardium and initiate a process of inflammation, calcification, and scarring that may eventually produce pericardial constriction. Herein, we present an unusual case of a man who experienced chest trauma at age 16 years, and developed heart failure 40 years later secondary to a large, calcified pericardial hematoma. During its prolonged genesis...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Surgery Case Reports
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2210-2612
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2019.06.055