Secondary left ventricular injury with haemopericardium caused by a rib fracture after blunt chest trauma |
| |
Authors: | Pankaj Kaul Ganti Somsekhar Graeme Macauley |
| |
Affiliation: | 1. Yorkshire Heart Centre, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds, LS1 3EX, Leeds, UK
|
| |
Abstract: | Trauma is the third most common cause of death in the West. In the US, approximately 90,000 deaths annually are traumatic in nature and over 75% of casualties from blunt trauma are due to chest injuries. Cardiac injuries from rib fractures following blunt trauma are extremely rare. We report the unusual case of a patient who fell from a height and presented with haemopericardium and haemothorax as a result of left ventricular and lingular lacerations and was sucessfully operated upon. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|