Posttraumatic Pneumopericardium: A Sign of Severe Injury or Radiodiagnostic Rarity?
We present three cases of pneumopericardium following blunt chest trauma injury. All three patients were victims of road traffic accidents. All had multiple associated injuries and pneumopericardium was found as the additional finding. Pneumopericardium was treated conservatively with thoracic drain...
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| author | Vladimír Lonský Jiří Manďák Jan Harrer Martin Tuna Petr Dvořák Tomáš Dědek Jan Dominik |
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| description | We present three cases of pneumopericardium following blunt chest trauma injury. All three patients were victims of road traffic accidents. All had multiple associated injuries and pneumopericardium was found as the additional finding. Pneumopericardium was treated conservatively with thoracic drains placement and patients observation. Transesophageal echocardiography was used as a method of choice for exclusion of cardiac air tamponade. All three patients survived. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e03c29f0fd66462796f06e815329ebb32022-12-21T19:09:57ZengKarolinum PressActa Medica1211-42861805-96942006-01-0149212913210.14712/18059694.2017.125Posttraumatic Pneumopericardium: A Sign of Severe Injury or Radiodiagnostic Rarity?Vladimír Lonský0Jiří Manďák1Jan Harrer2Martin Tuna3Petr Dvořák4Tomáš Dědek5Jan Dominik6Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Hradec Králové, Departments of Cardiac Surgery, Hradec Králové, Czech RepublicCharles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Hradec Králové, Departments of Cardiac Surgery, Hradec Králové, Czech RepublicCharles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Hradec Králové, Departments of Cardiac Surgery, Hradec Králové, Czech RepublicCharles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Hradec Králové, Departments of Cardiac Surgery, Hradec Králové, Czech RepublicCharles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Hradec Králové, Departments of Radiology, Hradec Králové, Czech RepublicCharles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Hradec Králové, Departments of Traumatology, Hradec Králové, Czech RepublicCharles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Hradec Králové, Departments of Cardiac Surgery, Hradec Králové, Czech RepublicWe present three cases of pneumopericardium following blunt chest trauma injury. All three patients were victims of road traffic accidents. All had multiple associated injuries and pneumopericardium was found as the additional finding. Pneumopericardium was treated conservatively with thoracic drains placement and patients observation. Transesophageal echocardiography was used as a method of choice for exclusion of cardiac air tamponade. All three patients survived.https://actamedica.lfhk.cuni.cz/49/2/0129/Blunt chest traumaPneumopericardiumTransesophageal echocardiography |
| spellingShingle | Vladimír Lonský Jiří Manďák Jan Harrer Martin Tuna Petr Dvořák Tomáš Dědek Jan Dominik Posttraumatic Pneumopericardium: A Sign of Severe Injury or Radiodiagnostic Rarity? Acta Medica Blunt chest trauma Pneumopericardium Transesophageal echocardiography |
| title | Posttraumatic Pneumopericardium: A Sign of Severe Injury or Radiodiagnostic Rarity? |
| title_full | Posttraumatic Pneumopericardium: A Sign of Severe Injury or Radiodiagnostic Rarity? |
| title_fullStr | Posttraumatic Pneumopericardium: A Sign of Severe Injury or Radiodiagnostic Rarity? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Posttraumatic Pneumopericardium: A Sign of Severe Injury or Radiodiagnostic Rarity? |
| title_short | Posttraumatic Pneumopericardium: A Sign of Severe Injury or Radiodiagnostic Rarity? |
| title_sort | posttraumatic pneumopericardium a sign of severe injury or radiodiagnostic rarity |
| topic | Blunt chest trauma Pneumopericardium Transesophageal echocardiography |
| url | https://actamedica.lfhk.cuni.cz/49/2/0129/ |
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