Asymptomatic fatal post-lobectomy hemopericardium
- Resource Type
- Authors
- S. Meraj; N.J. Odom; C. Kotoulas
- Source
- Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, Vol 69, Iss 3 (2016)
- Subject
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
lcsh:Medicine
Autopsy
Hemopericardium
Asymptomatic
Pericardial Effusion
Fatal Outcome
medicine
Humans
Pericardium
cardiovascular diseases
Circumflex
Pneumonectomy
Lung cancer
Aged
business.industry
lcsh:R
Major lung resection
medicine.disease
Epicardial fat
Surgery
Haemopericardium
medicine.anatomical_structure
cardiovascular system
Female
medicine.symptom
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Artery
- Language
- ISSN
- 2465-1028
1122-0643
We report a case of an asymptomatic post-lobectomy hemopericardium in a female who died suddenly at day two post surgery. Autopsy revealed no pathologic findings, but 250 ml of blood and clots in the pericardium and a non-significant injury to the epicardial fat overlying the circumflex artery territory.