| Autor: |
C C, Fan, B R, Andersen, S, Sahgal |
| Rok vydání: |
1994 |
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Archives of pathologylaboratory medicine. 118(10) |
| ISSN: |
0003-9985 |
| Popis: |
We report a rare case of cardiac tamponade caused by hemopericardium secondary to erosion and rupture of a coronary artery by an adjacent solitary myocardial abscess. The resulting tamponade led to the sudden death of this 46-year-old man. Antemortem blood culture and the postmortem microscopic examination of the myocardial abscess revealed the causative agent to be Staphylococcus aureus. Hemopericardium due to ventricular wall rupture secondary to a myocardial abscess has been infrequently reported, but, to our knowledge, only one other report of hemopericardium due to coronary artery rupture related to myocardial abscess has been published. |
| Databáze: |
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