Guleria Vivek Singh, Sharma Prafull
Department of Cardiology, Army Hospital Research and Referral, New Delhi, 110010 India.
Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Jan;37(1):112-113. doi: 10.1007/s12055-020-00983-4. Epub 2020 Jul 21.
Previous coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) is an independent risk factor for coronary perforation (CP) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) because of complexity of the cases. However in patients with prior CABG surgery, cardiac tamponade is rare because of local or regional pericardial adhesions.