Cardiac tamponade due to pneumopericardium

S L Johnston; R M Oliver

doi:10.1136/thx.43.6.482

. 1988 Jun;43(6):482–483. doi: 10.1136/thx.43.6.482

Cardiac tamponade due to pneumopericardium.

S L Johnston ¹, R M Oliver ¹

PMCID: PMC461317 PMID: 3047901

Abstract

Pneumopericardium is rare in acute asthma and cardiac tamponade has not been reported. The case is reported of a 20 year old asthmatic patient in whom assisted ventilation and high airway pressures resulted in tension pneumopericardium with clinical signs of cardiac tamponade that were relieved by pericardial aspiration.