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Home > Blogs > Karim's Weblog > Something’s not quite right… episode 2

So this patient came with a CT scan.  

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Those of you thinking dextrocardia - does this help you at all?  What exactly is going on here??

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miquell, June 29, 2009

this should be a rupture of the pericardium and a rotatory (sub)luxation of the heart, isn´t it?

Luis Pinheiro, Viseu - Portugal, July 27, 2009

Cardiac tamponade in dextrocardia?

albertogalicia, mexico, August 03, 2009

but, the patient should be in circulatory arrest because of caval torsion, isnt he??

dodoebrahim, August 09, 2009

there is collapse in right lower lung lobe so it may be amediastinal shift following this collapse

Karim, London, UK, August 11, 2009

Follow-up details for this patient are in the next blog post at:
http://www.trauma.org/index.php/community/blog_post/karim_brohi/885/

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