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Acute cardiac herniation after radical pleuropneumonectomy
1Department of Anaesthetics, University Hospital of Wales NHS Trust, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK.
Anaesthesia
|July 15, 1999
Abstract:
Acute cardiac herniation after radical pneumonectomy is extremely rare and is associated with an immediate mortality greater than 50%. We report a patient in whom cardiac herniation produced no signs or symptoms. The heart was returned to its correct position and the pericardial defect was repaired.