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Titanium plate to fix crossed rib can cause cardiac tamponade: A cautionary note
- Source :
- General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 69:353-355
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- A 78-year-old woman diagnosed with an infected descending aortic aneurysm underwent graft replacement through a left rib-cross thoracotomy. She developed shock suddenly on the postoperative day 3 owing to cardiac tamponade. We performed emergent surgery and identified a small myocardial laceration in the left ventricular obtuse marginal area and a small perforation on the pericardium. One of the claws used to fix the titanium plate in the cross-rib repair caused this complication. This is a cautionary note regarding this type of titanium plate, which is used in many procedures.
- Subjects :
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Perforation (oil well)
Ribs
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cardiac tamponade
medicine
Humans
Pericardium
Thoracotomy
Aged
Titanium
business.industry
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Cardiac Tamponade
Surgery
Cardiac surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cardiothoracic surgery
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Shock (circulatory)
cardiovascular system
Female
medicine.symptom
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Complication
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18636713 and 18636705
- Volume :
- 69
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e5afba091299280183362472243c2915