Cardiac Tamponade caused by Broken Sternal Wire after Pectus Excavatum Repair: A Case Report

Soo Hyun Lee; Bum Sang Cho; Sung Jin Kim; Seung Young Lee; Min Ho Kang; Gi Seok Han; Sang-Hoon Cha

doi:10.5761/atcs.cr.11.01871

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Cardiac Tamponade caused by Broken Sternal Wire after Pectus Excavatum Repair: A Case Report

Soo Hyun Lee, Bum Sang Cho, Sung Jin Kim, Seung Young Lee, Min Ho Kang, Gi Seok Han, Sang-Hoon Cha

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Keywords: cardiac tamponade, pectus excavatum, substernal Nuss bar, Ravitch repair, sternal wire

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2013 Volume 19 Issue 1 Pages 52-54

DOI https://doi.org/10.5761/atcs.cr.11.01871

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Abstract

Complications of pectus excavatum surgery include pneumothorax, pleuritis, hemothorax, pericardial effusion, displacement of bar, pericarditis and cardiac injury, etc. This is the case of a 15-year-old boy with cardiac tamponade caused by pericarditis who had taken the operation for a pectus excavatum repair one year previously. The cause was a sternal wire which was used for attachment of the bar to sternum that had fractured and migrated through the pericardium causing a pericardial injury and a pericarditis.

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