Pericardial tamponade and right-to-left shunt: Through patent foramen ovale after epicardial pacing-wire removal

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 574-575

  Saidi, Bahare ^a   Roshanali, Farideh ^a   Yousefnia, Mohammad Ali ^a   Mandegar, Mohammad Hossein ^a  

^a Day General Hospital   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cardiac pacing, artificial adverse effects; Cardiac surgical procedures; Cardiac tamponade etiology; Echocardiography, transesophageal; Heart injuries etiology; Heart septal defects, atrial; Pacemaker, artificial; Postoperative care, adverse effects; Postoperative complications etiology; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTIC ROOT SURGERY; ARTICLE; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYANOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FAINTNESS; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEART RUPTURE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; DEVICE REMOVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78449250082     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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