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Table 1 Previously reported cases of acute cardiac tamponade after pulmonary surgery

From: Acute cardiac tamponade following thoracoscopic lobectomy: a case report and literatures review

Case

Year

Excision

Time (postoperation)

Rescue way

Reason

Morimoto M et al. [4]

1991

RUL

13d

PCT

Aortic rupture at pericardium derivative

Tovar EA et al. [1]

1995

LLL

Intraoperative

PCT

Hemorrhage from the stump of the pulmonary vein in the pericardium

McLean RH et al. [2]

1999

RUL

5 h

PCT

Hemorrhage from the stump of the bronchial artery in the pericardium

Jain et al. [3]

2003

LUL

12 h

PCC

Hemorrhage from the stump of the pulmonary vein in the pericardium

Tuinman AG et al. [9]

2003

LP

2w

PCC (after sternotomy)

Unknown

Neema PK [5]

2011

LUL

3d

PCT

The pericardium injury

Chen J et al. [6]

2012

LUL

54 h

PCT

Pericardium and ventricle were injured

Ozawa Y et al. [8]

2013

wedge of RLL and left S8

4d

PCT

Coronary artery rupture

Lee HM et al. [10]

2017

LLL

1 h

PCT (PCC failure)

Unknown

Astudillo MG et al. [11]

2017

LLL

9d

PCC

Unknown

Yamashita T et al. [7]

2022

wedge of LLL

5d

PCC

The pericardium injury

The case

 

LUL

18 h

PCT (PCC recurrence)

Coronary artery rupture

  1. RUL, right upper lobe. RLL, right lower lobe. LUL, left upper lobe. LLL, left lower lobe. LP, left pneumonectomy. PCC, pericardiocentesis. PCT, pericardiotomy