Cardiac tamponade due to right coronary artery perforation following pacemaker implantation: a case report.

Zakaria Alaoui-Ismaili Anika Klein Jacob Eifer Moller Tommi B Lindhardt Christian Hassager

Published in: European heart journal. Case reports (2024)

This case highlights the necessity of coronary artery perforation being among the differential diagnoses of cardiac tamponade after PM implantation, and it stresses the usefulness of performing a blood gas analysis on the bloody pericardial effusion.

Keyphrases

coronary artery
pulmonary artery
left ventricular
particulate matter
heavy metals
pulmonary hypertension
risk assessment
vena cava
pulmonary arterial hypertension
atrial fibrillation
carbon dioxide
water soluble