• Thorax · Jun 1988

    Case Reports

    Cardiac tamponade due to pneumopericardium.

    • S L Johnston and R M Oliver.
    • Department of Medicine, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Hampshire.
    • Thorax. 1988 Jun 1; 43 (6): 482-3.

    AbstractPneumopericardium is rare in acute asthma and cardiac tamponade has not been reported. The case is reported of a 20 year old asthmatic patient in whom assisted ventilation and high airway pressures resulted in tension pneumopericardium with clinical signs of cardiac tamponade that were relieved by pericardial aspiration.

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