Unexpected Cardiac Tamponade Due to Bleeding From the Left Atrium During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2018 Feb 26;11(4):e27-e28. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2017.11.036. Epub 2018 Feb 12.

Authors

Hirofumi Hioki¹, Yusuke Watanabe², Shintaro Takamura², Akihisa Kataoka², Shigehito Sawamura³, Ken Kozuma²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: hhioki@shinshu-u.ac.jp.
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Teikyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

PMID: 29397363
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2017.11.036

No abstract available

Keywords: cardiac tamponade; left atrium perforation; transcatheter aortic valve replacement.