Pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade secondary to brodifacoum toxicosis in a dog.

Abstract

Hemorrhage resulting from ingestion of anticoagulant rodenticides may be evident at any traumatized site or in any body cavity. It is important for clinicians to include coagulopathies among the differential diagnoses for pericardial effusion and to evaluate clotting function before routine pericardiocentesis is performed.

• Authors: D J Petrus, R A Henik
• Journal: Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (J Am Vet Med Assoc) Vol. 215 Issue 5 Pg. 647-8 (Sep 01 1999) ISSN: 0003-1488 [Print] United States
• PMID: 10476710 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• 4-Hydroxycoumarins
• Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
• Rodenticides
• Vitamin K 1
• Lidocaine
• bromfenacoum
• Quinidine

Topics

• 4-Hydroxycoumarins (poisoning)
• Animals
• Anti-Arrhythmia Agents (therapeutic use)
• Blood Coagulation Disorders (chemically induced, diagnosis, veterinary)
• Blood Transfusion (veterinary)
• Cardiac Tamponade (chemically induced, diagnosis, veterinary)
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Dog Diseases (chemically induced, diagnosis, therapy)
• Dogs
• Electrocardiography (veterinary)
• Female
• Lidocaine (therapeutic use)
• Partial Thromboplastin Time (veterinary)
• Pericardial Effusion (chemically induced, diagnosis, veterinary)
• Quinidine (therapeutic use)
• Radiography, Thoracic (veterinary)
• Rodenticides (poisoning)
• Vitamin K 1 (therapeutic use)