Immediate and Delayed Cardiac Herniations after Intrapericardial Pneumonectomy--Report of Two Cases

Two cases of cardiac herniation following intrapericardial lungresections were reported. One was a case of a 29-year-old male with adenocarcinoma ofthe right lower lobe and the other was a 43-year-old male withsquamous cell carcinoma of the right upper lobe of the lung. In the former, cardiac herniation occurred in the recovery room.In the latter, it occurred during the second operation repairingbronchial fistula which appeared 20 days after the previousintrapericardial surgery. The time delay in the second casewas due to the unsuitable quality of prosthesis for the pericardialdefect.