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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
*Generally secondary to connection between pericardium and pleural cavity, bronchi, or GI tract | *Generally secondary to connection between pericardium and pleural cavity, bronchi, or GI tract | ||
*Most often found following trauma, severe asthma exacerbation, strangulation, or forceful drug insufflation | |||
==Clinical Features== | ==Clinical Features== | ||
Revision as of 19:08, 8 March 2019
Background
- Generally secondary to connection between pericardium and pleural cavity, bronchi, or GI tract
- Most often found following trauma, severe asthma exacerbation, strangulation, or forceful drug insufflation
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