pneumopericardium

Tension Pneumopericardium after Pericardiocentesis.

Pneumopericardium is defined as the presence of air inside the pericardial space. Usually, it is reported as a complication of blunt or penetrating chest trauma, but rare iatrogenic and spontaneous cases have been reported. Pneumopericardium is relatively stable if it does not generate a tension effect on the heart. However, it may progress to tension pneumopericardium, which requires immediate...

Pneumopericardium complicating pneumothorax therapy.

While complete absence of the pericardium is a very rare abnormality, which is sometimes found during a post-mortem examination, we believe that partial deficiency resulting in a pleuropericardial communication is probably not quite as uncommon as the meagre literature on the subject would indicate. Powell in 1869 first recorded a case of partial deficiency of the pericardium. In 1925 Moore fou...

Cocaine-induced pneumopericardium.

A20-year-old man without past medical history was admitted for diffuse left-sided and retrosternal chest pain after he was “told and forced to swallow crystal rocks.” He denied any prior symptomatology and denied cough. In the emergency department, he had a normal physical examination and laboratory studies. The ECG, however, showed diffuse ST-segment elevations (Figure 1). He was admitted to t...

Pneumopericardium following Laparoscopy

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Pneumopericardium following Laparoscopy

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Pneumopericardium after Manual Strangulation

Pneumopericardium following Laparoscopy

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