Heart, Lung and Circulation
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 237-239 , April 2012

Pericardial Tamponade: A Life Threatening Complication of Laparoscopic Gastro-oesophageal Surgery

  • Hariharan Sugumar, BMedSc, MBBS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Austin Hospital, 145 Studley Road, PO Box 5555, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia. Tel.: +61 3 9496 5000; fax: +61 3 9459 0971.
    • ,
  • Leighton G. Kearney, BMedSc, MBBS, FRACP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Australia
    • Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Australia
    • ,
  • Piyush M. Srivastava, MBBS, FRACP, FCSANZ

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Australia
    • Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Australia

Received 4 May 2011 ,Revised 17 July 2011 ,Accepted 2 August 2011.

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PII: S1443-9506(11)01058-4

doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.08.002

Heart, Lung and Circulation
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 237-239 , April 2012

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