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Video Supplement: A “Crunching” Heart: Pneumopericardium Following Pericardiocentesis

Samman Verma, MD, DM
Devesh Kumar, MD, MRCP, DM
Shreya Gupta, MD
Sanchit Sood, MBBS
Anil Kumar Choudhary, MD, DM
04/17/2026

Video. Fluoroscopy showing a hypolucent shadow surrounding the heart, seen most prominently on the inferior surface with movement synchronous with the cardiac shadow, suggestive of air in the pericardium around the heart.

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