Left internal mammary artery injury and subsequent hypovolemic shock due to a hemothorax after subxiphoid pericardiocentesis in a postoperative cardiac surgery patient.

ABSTRACT: Multimodality imaging is recommended in patients in shock after seemingly uneventful pericardiocentesis. The aim of this study was to heighten awareness that LIMA injury can lead to a life-threatening hemothorax in postoperative cardiac surgery patients.

SUBMITTER: Oudeman MAP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8077242 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature