Delayed cardiac rupture occurring two months after blunt chest trauma
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Shinsaku Ueda, MD, PhD · Yasuhiro Ito, MD, PhD Toshiaki Konnai, MD, PhD · Satoshi Suzuki, MD, PhD Katsuhiko Isogami, MD, PhD
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
We describe a rare case of successful repair of delayed cardiac rupture due to blunt chest trauma; the cardiac rupture occurred 74 days after the trauma. A 75-year-old woman with a history of blunt chest trauma that caused multiple rib fractures underwent an emergent thoracotomy due to left hemothorax. A coin-sized pericardial defect and cardiac rupture on the left ventricle was found to be close to a fractured rib, which was thought to have damaged the myocardium and thus induced timedependent myocardial degeneration. The cardiac rupture and the pericardial defect did not induce life-threatening cardiac tamponade; however, the cardiac rupture did induce hemothorax, which could be successfully treated
Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2011) 59:45–47 DOI 10.1007/s11748-010-0625-8 Received: 27 January 2010 / Accepted: 1 April 2010
