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Successful surgical intervention for delayed chylopericardial tamponade following aortic valve replacement: a case report.


ABSTRACT: Chylopericardium is one of the rarest complications of cardiac surgery. It is related to direct or indirect injury to the thoracic duct or its tributaries and can result in serious morbidity or even death. A 77-year-old Japanese woman who had severe aortic stenosis underwent routine aortic valve replacement. At 15 days after surgery, she developed cardiac tamponade, which was caused by chylopericardium. She was successfully treated by direct clipping of a thoracic duct tributary and mass ligation of the thymus. This rare condition needs to be kept in mind as a possible cause of postoperative cardiac tamponade.

SUBMITTER: Gyoten T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4255646 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Successful surgical intervention for delayed chylopericardial tamponade following aortic valve replacement: a case report.

Gyoten Takayuki T   Doi Toshio T   Fukahara Kazuaki K   Yoshimura Naoki N  

Journal of cardiothoracic surgery 20141130


Chylopericardium is one of the rarest complications of cardiac surgery. It is related to direct or indirect injury to the thoracic duct or its tributaries and can result in serious morbidity or even death. A 77-year-old Japanese woman who had severe aortic stenosis underwent routine aortic valve replacement. At 15 days after surgery, she developed cardiac tamponade, which was caused by chylopericardium. She was successfully treated by direct clipping of a thoracic duct tributary and mass ligatio  ...[more]

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