DOI: 10.1111/eve.70138 ISSN: 0957-7734
Acute and sudden death secondary to cardiac tamponade during anaesthetic recovery in a 21‐year‐old draught mule
A. Carroll, J. Quandt, S. DantinoSummary
This case report is of educational value and contributes to the literature because it describes a unique death after anaesthesia due to cardiac tamponade from a rare cardiac neoplasm. In trying to diagnose the origin of chronic sinusitis, a geriatric mule mare was anaesthetised and during recovery, died acutely. Post‐mortem and histopathology revealed the cause of death as cardiac tamponade due to a pericardial leiomyosarcoma.