Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Kun Gao

Publications

• Case Report
  Fatal Acute Cardiac Tamponade after Balloon Angioplasty for Central Venous Stenosis, a Case Report
  Author(s): Qiang Huang, Kun Gao and Ren You ZhaiQiang Huang, Kun Gao and Ren You Zhai
  
  We report a 40-year-old woman who developed a fatal acute cardiac tamponade after balloon angioplasty for central venous stenosis (CVS) related to hemodialysis. Retrograde and antegrade recanalization followed by balloon angioplasty was carried out through the right-femoral and left internal jugular vein approach. The interventional procedure of recanalization and balloon angioplasty was uneventful with satisfactory angiographic result of the central venous. However, the patient suffered sudden-onset shortness of breath and tachycardia, followed by bradycardia and cardiac arrest, apneic and coma immediately after the procedure. Acute cardiac tamponade was suspected and confirmed by emergency echocardiography. Urgent pericardiocentesis and indwelling catheter placement was performed with 200 ml hemorrhagic pericardial effusion aspirated. However, resuscitation was only successful in re.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7920.1000288

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