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Spontaneous tension pyopneumopericardium--a case with recovery after surgery
J Bilbao-Garay1, M C Carreño, F Roman
1Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Clinica Puerta de Hierro, Spain.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|December 1, 1988
Abstract:
Tension pyopneumopericardium is a rare condition with a very high mortality. The majority of cases are due to perforation of oesophagus or bronchi into the pericardial cavity. We report a patient with spontaneous pyopneumopericardium who survived with antibiotic treatment and surgical drainage.