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Fatal cardiac tamponade complicating anticoagulant therapy in rheumatoid arthritis
D W Cotton1, C Cooper, M Searle
1Department of Pathology, University of Sheffield Medical School.
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
Haemopericardium with tamponade is a rare complication of anticoagulant therapy. A case of fatal haemopericardium is described in a patient with rheumatoid pericarditis in whom the precipitating factor appeared to be intravenous anticoagulant therapy.