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An unusual case of cardiac tamponade following electrical cardioversion
G A Jessurun1, H J Crijns, J van Wijngaarden
1University Hospital Groningen, Department of Cardiology, The Netherlands.
International Journal of Cardiology
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
The clinical presentation of cardiac tamponade may uncover underlying pericardial disease. We describe a patient who was being treated for lone atrial fibrillation. In this case, direct current cardioversion for recurrence of atrial fibrillation was complicated by a life-threatening hemopericardium. A history of asbestos exposure was subsequently related to the subclinical pericarditis.