Cardiac Tamponade due to Coronary Artery Erosion
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https://doi.org/10.1532/HSF98.20051117Abstract
This report describes two patients with cardiac tamponade secondary to bleeding from a coronary artery, which had been eroded by a foreign body. In one patient the foreign body had been ingested and in the other patient, the cause was iatrogenic. This report highlights varied and unusual causes of cardiac tamponade.References
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