Key result
Post-CABG anticoagulation for AF complicated by massive right atrial tamponade at 15 days.
Why the study?
Unrecognized tamponade after coronary artery bypass grafting can be fatal.
Case Report (n=1)
This case highlights massive right atrial tamponade from a pericardial hematoma as a critical cause of unexplained hypotension and tachycardia early after coronary artery bypass grafting.
Clinicians should consider pericardial hematoma in unexplained post-CABG hypotension; case extends awareness of rare tamponade but leaves open prospective study.
If unrecognized, tamponade after coronary artery bypass grafting can be fatal. We describe a 63-year-old man who developed unexplained hypotension and tachycardia and was found to have severe compression of the right atrial cavity by a large hematoma in the pericardial sac.
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Mahmoud et al. (2019) conducted a case report in Right atrial tamponade (n=1). Surgical excision of hematoma was evaluated. A 63-year-old man developed massive right atrial tamponade from a pericardial hematoma 15 days after coronary artery bypass grafting and anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation.
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