Hemopericardium from right atrial laceration in a newborn

Authors :: Wen-Hsien Lu
Jun-Yen Pan
Jenn-Tzong Chang
Hsiao-Ping Wang
Ying-Yao Chen
Kai-Sheng Hsieh
Source :: Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, Vol 74, Iss 9, Pp 423-424 (2011)
Publication Year :: 2011
Publisher :: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2011.
Abstract: We report the case of a newborn who suffered right atrial laceration during delivery. To our knowledge, there has been no previous report of blunt injury causing right atrial laceration with hemopericardium complicated by cardiac tamponade in the perinatal period.