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Cardiac tamponade due to chylopericardium after cardiac surgery

W M Pereira¹, R A Kalil, P R Prates

¹Surgical Service, Institute of Cardiology of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

|November 1, 1988

Abstract:

Chylopericardium as an isolated complication after open-heart surgery is a rare event. We present here a case of postoperative chylopericardium with cardiac tamponade and comment on the clinical course and treatment.

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