Pneumopericardium: Difference between revisions
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*Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome | *Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome | ||
Revision as of 16:12, 22 September 2016
Background
- Generally secondary to connection between pericardium and pleural cavity, bronchi, or GI tract
Clinical Features
Differential Diagnosis
Causes of pneumopericardium
- GI malignancy
- PUD
- Esophageal diverticula
- Barotrauma
- Mechanical ventilation complication
- SCUBA diving/rapid ascent
- Drug inhalation (especially associated with crack cocaine)
- Asthma
- Valsalva
- Drug inhalation
- Infectious pericarditis with gas-producing bacteria
- Thoracic surgery
- Pericardial fluid drainage
- Blast injury
- Blunt or penetratic Thoracic trauma
- Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome