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Cardiac herniation following right lower lobectomy—a rare clinical entity

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Cardiac herniation and torsion may rarely occur following lobectomy with partial pericardectomy. High index of suspicion is required to diagnose this near fatal event. We report an unusual case of acute right sided cardiac dextroversion with torsion in a 58-year-old female following a right lower lobectomy, pericardectomy, and excision of infiltrated part of right hemi diaphragm for recurrent soft tissue fibrosarcoma.

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  1. Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, 22/9J, Medical Campus, Rohtak, Haryana, 124001, India

    Sanjeev Parshad, Rajendra Karwasra, Mayank Tripathi, Bhavender Arora & Shekhar Gogna

  2. Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, 124001, India

    Shamsher Singh Lohchab, Ashok Chahal & Ashish Asija

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Parshad, S., Lohchab, S.S., Karwasra, R. et al. Cardiac herniation following right lower lobectomy—a rare clinical entity. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 33, 244–246 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12055-017-0542-x

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