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SUBMITTER: Oladiran O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6109521 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oladiran Oreoluwa O Segal Jared J Nwosu Ifeanyi I Nazir Salik S
Case reports in cardiology 20180812
Rivaroxaban is a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) approved as an important alternative to warfarin in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. We report the case of an 87-year-old man with past medical history of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation on rivaroxaban and recently started amiodarone for pulseless ventricular tachycardia who presented to our hospital with intermittent chest pain and was diagnosed with spontaneous hemopericardium causing cardiac tamponade. The culprit drugs were disc ...[more]