Departments of Medicine and Pathology, The George Washington University School of Medicine Division of Cardiology Rasearch, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
Joseph LINDSAY
Departments of Medicine and Pathology, The George Washington University School of Medicine
Robert H. PATTERSON
Departments of Medicine and Pathology, The George Washington University School of Medicine
George A. KELSER
Departments of Medicine and Pathology, The George Washington University School of Medicine
A case of organizing hemopericardium and cardiac tamponade in a patient with a permanent endocardial pacemaker who was maintained on anticoagulation is presented. The hemopericardium is concluded as solely due to the anticoagulation. A new auscultatory finding attributable to an endocardial pacemaker and a helpful radiographic sign of pericardial effusion in patients with these pacemaker is described.
