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Pericardial tamponade secondary to central venous catheterization and hyperalimentation in a very low birthweight
B B Rogers1, S D Berns, E C Maynard
1Department of Pathology, Women and Infants' Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island.
Pediatric Pathology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A very low birthweight infant developed pericardial tamponade secondary to leakage of fat emulsion through a catheter lodged in the right atrial appendage. At autopsy examination a thrombus was lodged in the appendage, which presumably resulted in immobilization of the catheter and leakage of the fluid through an attenuated and necrotic myocardial wall.