Noninvasive detection of active pericardial bleeding using cardiac blood pool scintigraphy

Am J Cardiol. 1983 Jan 15;51(2):329-31. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(83)80059-9.

Abstract

The diagnosis of active pericardial bleeding has traditionally depended on an invasive documentation by needle aspiration, angiography, or direct inspection. Blood pool scintigraphy performed in 2 patients just before and after the development of hemopericardium revealed unique images in which acute pericardial bleeding manifested itself by an additional blood pool adjacent to the cardiac chambers. With appropriate attention to technical factors, such distinctive images should be highly specific for active bleeding into the pericardial sac.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures / adverse effects
  • Coronary Circulation
  • Erythrocytes
  • Female
  • Heart / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pacemaker, Artificial / adverse effects
  • Pericardial Effusion / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pericardial Effusion / etiology
  • Pericardium / injuries
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Technetium*

Substances

  • Technetium