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Delayed and repeated cardiac tamponade following microleak in RCA successfully treated with intra arterial sterile glue injection
Author(s) -
Goel Pravin K.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.21924
Subject(s) - medicine , tamponade , cardiac tamponade , glue , surgery , leak , perforation , materials science , environmental engineering , engineering , punching , composite material , metallurgy
Postinterventional pericardial leaks mostly occur intraprocedure or immediately postprocedure and call for an aggressive management right then. Also, once controlled for 24–48 hr, the leaks usually seal themselves spontaneously. We herein describe an unusual case of delayed and continued pericardial leak over 10 days as a result of micro perforation of RCA from the distal wire tip and which was successfully managed by intracoronary injection of sterile synthetic glue, which to the best of our knowledge is the first report of its kind. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.