TY - JOUR
T1 - Tension Pneumopericardium
AU - Eagle, Kim
AU - Smith, Lawrence G.
AU - Naqvi, Tasneem
PY - 1995/6/1
Y1 - 1995/6/1
N2 - Figure 1. Tension pneumopericardium, a rare complication of pyogenic lung abscess, occurred in a 27-year-old white man with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Cultures of specimens obtained through a bronchoscopic sheath catheter had yielded Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. Despite antibiotic treatment, the patient had spontaneous rupture of the abscess into the pericardial sac and died from a tension pneumopericardium and cardiac tamponade. The chest x-ray film in Panel A shows cavitating pneumonia in the left mid-lung field, adjacent to the cardiac silhouette. In Panel B, another chest film, air under pressure is evident in the pericardial sac, with the…
AB - Figure 1. Tension pneumopericardium, a rare complication of pyogenic lung abscess, occurred in a 27-year-old white man with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Cultures of specimens obtained through a bronchoscopic sheath catheter had yielded Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. Despite antibiotic treatment, the patient had spontaneous rupture of the abscess into the pericardial sac and died from a tension pneumopericardium and cardiac tamponade. The chest x-ray film in Panel A shows cavitating pneumonia in the left mid-lung field, adjacent to the cardiac silhouette. In Panel B, another chest film, air under pressure is evident in the pericardial sac, with the…
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM199506013322205
DO - 10.1056/NEJM199506013322205
M3 - Article
C2 - 7739685
AN - SCOPUS:85023658178
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 332
SP - 1481
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 22
ER -