A peril of minimally invasive surgery

1999 
A 23-YEAR-OLD woman presented with rheumatic mitral valve stenosis and regurgitation. She underwent a valvular commissurotomy and annuloplasty through a minimally invasive median sternotomy. Her operative course was unremarkable. However, after arrival in the intensive care unit, a postoperative chest radiograph showed an abnormality that required the patient to return to the operating room for rnediastinal reexploration. Identify the abnormality seen on the chest radiograph (Fig 1).
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