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Gastropericardial fistula presenting with cardiac arrest: a case report.
Eur Heart J Case Rep
June 2018
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of North-Norway Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.
Introduction: Gastropericardial fistulas are rare conditions, with less than 100 reported cases. The diagnosis is associated with significant morbidity, prolonged hospitalization and often has a fatal outcome.
Case Presentation: We describe a unique case of cardiac arrest caused by pneumopericardium and cardiac tamponade as the acute presentation of a gastropericardial fistula, in a patient admitted with an infection of unknown origin.
Pneumopericardial tamponade resulting from a spontaneous gastropericardial fistula.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv
April 2009
Department of Cardiology, The University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA.
Pneumopericardium is a rare but serious cause of morbidity and mortality. Untreated, it can lead to cardiac tamponade and thus must be promptly identified to treat the underlying etiology. Here, we report a case of spontaneous pneumopericardium secondary to gastric ulcer perforation in association with a hiatal hernia.
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Aust N Z J Surg
April 1996
Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia.
A patient operated for carcinoma of the bladder complicated by infection by anaerobic organisms developed pneumopericardium. Spontaneous pneumopericardium may or may not follow effraction of the pericardium. The following causes have been described: fistula with a tuberculous cavernoma, parenchymatous or pleural infection, carcinoma of the bronchus; oesophageal or gastro-pericardial fistulae arising from carcinoma or ulceration of the stomach or oesophagus; rupture of a mediastinal, hepatic or subphrenic abscess and, exceptionally, pericarditis complicated by fistulisation to the tracheo-bronchial tree.
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