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Delayed cardiac tamponade after coronary artery laceration
John Bozinovski1, Shaohua Wang, Someshewar Nakai
1Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 9, 2002
Abstract:
Delayed cardiac tamponade after laceration of a coronary artery is unusual and uncommonly reported in the literature. We describe a patient in whom this potentially fatal complication developed 8 days after a stab wound to his chest. In our review of the English language literature we identified only one other report of delayed tamponade after coronary artery laceration.