Cardiac tamponade complicating esophagectomy and retrosternal gastric tube reconstitution in a patient with an abnormal ascending aorta position: a case report

Surgical Case Reports

Table 1 Reported cases of early cardiac tamponade after esophagectomy

No.	Year	First Author	Location of tumor	Operative procedure for esophagectomy	Reconstruction organ	Reconstruction route	Date of cardiac tamponade	Cause of tamponade	Treatment	Outcome	Reference
1	2001	Cherian	NA	NA	Gastric tube	NA	POD 1	Dilation of gastric tube	Suction of gastric tube	Alive	[5]
2	2001	Kariya	Lt	Right thoracotomy	Gastric tube	Retrosternal	POD 1	Dilation of gastric tube	Suction of gastric tube	Alive	[6]
3	2012	Rottoli	Lt	Right thoracotomy	Gastric tube	Posterior mediastinal	POD22	Chylothorax	Transabdominal drainage	Alive	[7]
4	1998	Levitt	EGJ	Left thoracoabdominal	NA	NA	POD 0	Intrapericardial hemorrhage	Open drainage from the scar of esophagectomy	Alive	[11]
5	2005	Mizuguchi	Ut	Right thoracotomy	Gastric tube	Retrosternal	POD 4	Acute pericarditis	Percutaneous drainage via the subxiphoid	Alive	[8]
6	2015	Ito	Lt	Right thoracotomy	Gastric tube	Retrosternal	POD4	Intrapericardial hemorrhage	Open drainage with left anterior thoracotomy	Alive	[4]
7	2017	Kosugi	Mt	Right thoracotomy	Gastric tube	Retrosternal	POD1,13	Chylopericardium	Percutaneous drainage via the subxiphoid	Alive	[9]
8	2020	Li	Mt	Minimal right thoracotomy	Gastric tube	NA	POD1	Chylopericardium	Percutaneous drainage via the subxiphoid	Alive	[10]
9	2023	Aoyama	Lt	Right thoracoscopy	Gastric tube	Retrosternal	POD1	Intrapericardial hemorrhage	Open drainage with left and right anterior thoracotomy	Alive	–

Cases 1–3 occurred due to pressure from outside the pericardium, whereas cases 4–9 occurred due to fluid collection in the pericardium