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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lab Invest. 2014 Dec 1;95(2):132–141. doi: 10.1038/labinvest.2014.144

Figure 1. Post-operative pericardial fluid accumulates around the heart.

Figure 1

A) Post-operative axial CT scan image of a cardiac surgery patient demonstrates accumulation of pericardial fluid around the heart. B) The cardiac injury markers, myoglobin, CK-MB and troponin-I are significantly elevated in the postoperative pericardial fluid compared to their plasma controls (p<0.05).