Unusual treatment of postoperative bleeding after cardiac surgery ()
José Rubio-Alvarez,
Juan Sierra-Quiroga,
Belén Adrio-Nazar,
Laura Reija López,
Ángela Granda Bauza,
Carola Rubio Taboada,
Jose Manuel Martinez-Cereijo
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Universitary Hospital Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain.
Department of Vascular Surgery, Universitary Hospital of Elche, Alicante, Spain.
DOI: 10.4236/wjcd.2013.35058
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Abstract
A young patient was presented to the emergency department with chest pain and palpitations. A transthoracic echocardiogram showed a right atrial mass. Coronary angiography showed a right coronary artery with collateral circulation to a large mass. The tumor could only be partially resected and the patient experienced persistent postoperative bleeding. We performed a new right coronary artery angiography which showed an important free extravasation of contrast into the pericardium through the collateral circulation. Using covered stents, the bleeding was controlled. The pathological examination performed later revealed a primary cardiac angiosarcoma. After asymptom-free survival of 14 months the patient presented bone metastases.
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Rubio-Alvarez, J. , Sierra-Quiroga, J. , Adrio-Nazar, B. , López, L. , Bauza, Á. , Taboada, C. and Martinez-Cereijo, J. (2013) Unusual treatment of postoperative bleeding after cardiac surgery.
World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases,
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The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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