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Cardiac tamponade after a systemic-pulmonary shunt complicated by serous leakage
L García-Guereta1, M Burgueros, D Borches
1Division of Cardiology, Hospital Infantil La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
A newborn baby with complex congenital heart disease had severe persistent pericardial effusion after a systemic-pulmonary shunt. Pericardiocentesis and pericardiotomy could not stop pericardial leakage. At reoperation, topical application of a fibrin glue resulted in resolution of the leak and avoided replacement of the graft.