Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis

Pericarditis Post Pacemaker Implantation Progressing To Cardiac Tamponade after Treatment of an Incidental Pulmonary Embolism

Abstract

Ahmad A. Alwassia*, Bhanu Patibandla, Anthony Bartley, Vinod Chaubey, Ramses M Thabet, Arvind Gireesh and Nitya Sthalekar

This report presents a case of cardiac tamponade that developed after a patient who presented with a pleuritic chest pain 2 weeks after pacemaker implantation. The patient developed cardiac tamponade after being treated with heparin drip for an incidental pulmonary embolism.