A Case of Localized Pericarditis Associated with Organized Hematoma.
10.4326/jjcvs.25.318
- VernacularTitle:血腫を伴った限局性収縮性心膜炎の１例
- Author:
Shingo Ishiguro
;
Hiroaki Kuroda
;
Yohichi Hara
;
Yasushi Ashida
;
Akihiko Inoue
;
Tohru Mori
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Japanese Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
1996;25(5):318-320
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
A 64-year-old man with a history of anterior blunt trauma 10 years previously was admitted to our hospital complaining of general fatigue. A plain chest roentgenogram showed pericardial calcification. Computed tomography and echocardiography showed the mass to be a calcified capsule in the anterior mediastinum compressing the right side of the heart. He underwent an operation through a median sternotomy. The mass was an organized hematoma encapsulated by a calcified fibrous and serous layer of the pericardium. The hematoma was resected together with the calcified pericardium under cardiopulmonary bypass. His postoperative course was uneventful. He had no history of hemopericardium but had experienced blunt chest trauma that seemed to have induced the subsequent localized constrictive pericarditis.
