A 17 year old girl developed cardiac tamponade during the course of a meningococcal meningeal illness. Pericardiotomy was eventually required to alleviate the tamponade.

PURPOSE To report the results of a two-step operation for treating retinal detachments caused by macular holes in high-myopic patients. METHODS In the first part of the operation, pars plana vitrectomy, air-fluid exchange, and silicone oil injection were performed. At 4-6 months after the first operation, the second part of the operation was performed. This involved silicone oil removal and i...

introduction although a few patients will survive after penetrating cardiac injuries, some of them may have unnoticeable intracardiac injuries. the combination of aorto-right ventricular fistula with aortic valve injury is rare. case presentation a 19 year-old man referred with an aorto-right ventricular fistula accompanied with aortic regurgitation and delayed tamponade following a stab in the...

Background Cardiac tamponade is a rare but life-threatening complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Aims/Objectives To describe incidence, risk factors and treatment of cardiac tamponade in a large cohort of Indian patients with SLE. Methods This retrospective study was conducted at the Department of Rheumatology, IPGMER, Kolkata, India from May 2014 to December 2016 on admitted...

Cardiac tamponade is a rare but serious emergency condition in the pediatric population. As treatment, a pericardial drain is often placed to evacuate the fluid. We present a case of a 4-year-old girl with cardiac tamponade secondary to renal failure. After the tamponade resolved, she suffered cardiovascular collapse upon attempted drain withdrawal. This case highlights an unusual cause for car...

Late onset seroma is a rare post-operative complication occurring after various surgeries including thymectomy. Most cases are asymptomatic; however, seromas occurring in the mediastinal cavity may cause compression symptoms including airway compression or cardiac tamponade. We present a 62-year-old male with a history of thymectomy for myasthenia gravis who presented with cardiac tamponade sev...

A case is described of a 69-year-old woman with dissection of the ascending aorta who developed cardiac tamponade during induction of anaesthesia. The tamponade was diagnosed by a haemodynamic profile showing approximation of the central venous, pulmonary wedge and pulmonary arterial diastolic pressures, and was treated with rapid surgical intervention and drainage of the haemopericardium. Card...

Echocardiograms were obtained in 10 normal patients and in 11 patients with respiratory insufficiency due to chronic obstructive lung disease (8) and to thoracic poliomyelitis (3). Only the eight patients with obstructive lung disease had paradoxic pulse. No patient had pericardial disease. The left ventricular internal dimension, stroke volume, and the mitral valve E-F slope and D-E excursion ...

We describe a 35-year-old multi-trauma patient who had a high-grade liver laceration with extensive retrosternal hemomediastinum. Extrapericardial tamponade secondary to the fracture of the sternum was followed by the instantaneous surgical evacuation of the hematoma. Computed tomography (CT) angiography helped diagnose this uncommon entity of blunt trauma-induced internal mammary artery bleedi...

Silicone oil migration into the subretinal space following vitreoretinal surgery may occur in complex cases of retinal detachment with proliferative vitreoretinopathy. This complication prevents achievement of the primary goal (ie, to attach the retina) and fails to provide the internal tamponade, leading to a permanent decrease in visual acuity. Successful and complete removal of the subretina...