Cardiac tamponade caused by broken sternal wire after pectus excavatum repair: a case report.

نویسندگان

  • Soo Hyun Lee
  • Bum Sang Cho
  • Sung Jin Kim
  • Seung Young Lee
  • Min Ho Kang
  • Gi Seok Han
  • Sang-Hoon Cha
چکیده

Complications of pectus excavatum surgery include pneumothorax, pleuritis, hemothorax, pericardial effusion, displacement of bar, pericarditis and cardiac injury, etc. This is the case of a 15-year-old boy with cardiac tamponade caused by pericarditis who had taken the operation for a pectus excavatum repair one year previously. The cause was a sternal wire which was used for attachment of the bar to sternum that had fractured and migrated through the pericardium causing a pericardial injury and a pericarditis.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia

دوره 19 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013