Spontaneous Mediastinal Hemorrhage
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 143 (3) , 562-563
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1983.00350030176031
Abstract
• A 72-year-old man with a recent inferior-wall myocardial infarction complicated by continued ischemic cardiac pain underwent an intracoronary streptokinase infusion in an attempt to re-establish coronary perfusion. Although the cardiac catheterization and streptokinase infusion were technically uncomplicated, signs of an enlarging mediastinal mass associated with a drop in the hematocrit reading developed in the patient 12 hours after the procedure. Aortography showed no evidence of aortic dissection or laceration. The patient was believed to have a spontaneous mediastinal hemorrhage related to streptokinase infusion. (Arch Intern Med 1983;143:562-563)This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: