Delayed cardiac tamponade after catheter ablation therapy due to a Valsalva manoeuvre

Autor: Maria Sol Siliato-Robles, Jose Carlos Sureda-Barbosa, Albert Igual-Barceló, Juan Manuel Gracia-Baena
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery. 55(2)
ISSN: 1873-734X
Popis: A 23-year-old man, diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and who had undergone several catheter ablations, presented 2 months after the most recent ablation with cardiac tamponade following physical exertion. Emergency surgery revealed a perforation between the inferior vena cava and the right atrium. This perforation was repaired with a bovine pericardium patch. To our knowledge, this is the first case of delayed cardiac tamponade after catheter ablation due to a Valsalva manoeuvre (such as weightlifting) in a patient with a normal international normalized ratio and normal platelet count.
Databáze: OpenAIRE