| Literature DB >> 28150060 |
Motoo Osaka1, Ryo Nagai2, Tadashi Koishizawa2.
Abstract
A 49-year-old man was transferred to our hospital by ambulance due to blunt chest trauma sustained in a car accident. Echocardiography and enhanced computed tomography showed hemopericardium without other vital organ damage. Emergent surgery was performed under strong suspicion of traumatic cardiac rupture. Careful inspection showed a rupture of the right upper pulmonary vein at the junction of the left atrium, a laceration of the inferior vena cava, and a left-side pericardium rupture, and they were repaired with running 4-0 polypropylene suture. Postoperative hemodynamics were stable. The patient was discharged ambulatory on postoperative day 15.Entities:
Keywords: Blunt chest trauma; Cardiac rupture; Pulmonary vein; Rupture
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28150060 DOI: 10.1007/s11748-017-0749-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg ISSN: 1863-6705