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Heart luxation through a right-sided traumatic pericardial defect

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A traumatic defect of the pericardium is a rarely diagnosed entity. We present a patient with a right-sided luxation of the heart which was incidentally diagnosed during a thoracic CT performed for other reasons. Despite of the threatening strangulation of the great vessels, the patient had a stable circulation until surgical repair of the pericardial defect.

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  1. Department of Radiology, LKH Feldkirch, Carinagasse 47, 6800 Feldkirch, Austria e-mail: klaus.hergan@mail.austria.com Tel.: + 43-55 22-3 03 31 00 Fax: + 43-55 22-3 03 75 35, , , , , , AT

    K. Hergan & Wolfgang Oser

  2. Department of Surgery, LKH Feldkirch, Carinagasse 47, 6800 Feldkirch, Austria, , , , , , AT

    Gerhard Müller, Anton Haid & Gerhard Zimmermann

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  1. K. Hergan
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Received: 20 April 2000 Revised: 24 July 2000 Accepted: 25 July 2000

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Hergan, K., Müller, G., Haid, A. et al. Heart luxation through a right-sided traumatic pericardial defect. Eur Radiol 11, 825–827 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003300000645

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