2006-09-24 07:57:59 · 6 answers · asked by malteser 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Haemopericardium
pericardial fluid collection composed of blood. Haemopericardium to some extent occurs after cardiac surgery. It may also be caused by blunt or penetrating trauma, perforation of the heart or a coronary artery after cardiac catheterization and coronary angioplasty respectively. Haemopericardium may also occur with some pericardial metastatic tumours and with the postpericardiotomy syndrome. Postoperative haemopericardium is now recognized as an aetiological factor for the development of constrictive pericarditis. Chest X-ray demonstrates widening of the cardiac silhouette as with any pericardial effusion. The diagnosis of haemopericardium can be made with spin echo MRI. On T1-weighted images, haemopericardium has high signal intensity of part of nearly all of the effusion as opposed to the low intensity of nonhaemorrhagic effusion may disclose high density of a pericardial haematoma.
2006-09-24 08:01:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually due to traumatic injury, hemopericardium is an accumulation of blood in the pericardium which is the sac in which the heart resides. Usually it has a very small amount of fluid just to keep it lubricated. In hemopericardium, this space is massively expanded with blood, which may then become partially clotted. When it gets too full, the heart cannot expand fully to fill it's own chambers, rapidly reducing it's ability to supply the remainder of the body with adequate oxygen and other nutrients via the circulation. At that point it is medically termed cardiac tamponade, which can occur with other fluids other than blood also.
2006-09-24 18:49:37 · answer #2 · answered by finaldx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pericardium is the outer most covering of the heart. It is like a purse which is closed from all sides. it is pierced by the major vessels that come to or leave the heart like vena cava, aorta.
When blood collects in this closed cavity it is called Haemopericardium. If acute, it can be rapidly fatal.
Common causes are after heart operation, blunt injury to the chest, massive heart attack with rupture of one of the chambers of the heart.
2006-09-24 19:38:45 · answer #3 · answered by Vivax 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pericardial fluid collection composed of blood.
The pericardium is a cavity of the heart.
Haemopericardium may occur after heart surgery. It may also be caused by blunt or penetrating trauma (stabbing), perforation of the heart or a coronary artery after cardiac catheterization and coronary angioplasty (the balloon).
2006-09-24 15:09:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
blood leaking into the capsule that actually surrounds the heart in the chest
2006-09-24 14:59:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
get it checked
2006-09-26 12:33:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋