Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography for Iatrogenic Cardiac Tamponade Treatment in a Patient Undergoing Liver

The current case report describes a case of Intraoperative progressive hemodynamic failure in a patient undergoing orthotropic liver transplantation. Rescue transesophageal echocardiography was used to facilitate rapid diagnosis of a iatrogenic acute pericardial tamponade, resulting from a suture penetrating the pericardium through the right hemi diaphragm. This potentially lethal complication required an immediate echo-assisted pericardiocenthesis.

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