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Post-Operative cardiac strangulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

J.Deane Waldman ,
Robert B. Karp  and
Francis Ferdinand
J.Deane Waldman*
Affiliation:
Congenital Heart Registry and the Sections of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Robert B. Karp
Affiliation:
Congenital Heart Registry and the Sections of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Francis Ferdinand
Affiliation:
Congenital Heart Registry and the Sections of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
*
Dr. J. Deane Waldman, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, The University of New Mexico, 2211 Lomas Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-5311, USA. Tel. 505-272-3864; Fax. 505-272-1212.
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Abstract

A patient is reported in whom cardiac strangulation occurred through a lateral pericardial defect surgically created for repair of congenital heart disease. To avoid this potentially fatal complication, the inferior rim of an iatrogenic lateral pericardial defect should be tacked down to preclude cardiac herniation.

Keywords

Congential heart surgerynamalous pulmaonary venous connectionpericardial defect
Type
Brief Report
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 91 - 93
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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