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A novel pathophysiological approach to pericardial disease explains the clinical findings of cardiac tamponade resulting from atraumatic haemopericardium in a patient on warfarin.
This case report discusses a novel pathophysiological approach to pericardial disease in the context of atraumatic haemopericardium and cardiac tamponade.
May warrant consideration of novel mechanisms in unexplained tamponade; hypothesis-generating and requires confirmation before clinical adoption.
A 53-year-old man on warfarin for postoperative pulmonary embolism presented with chest pain and was found to be in cardiac tamponade due to an atraumatic haemopericardium. Findings of tamponade and a novel approach to the pathophysiology of pericardial disease to explain these finding are presented.
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Reed et al. (2012) studied this question. A novel pathophysiological approach to pericardial disease explains the clinical findings of cardiac tamponade resulting from atraumatic haemopericardium in a patient on warfarin.
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