[Clinical aspects and therapy of blunt heart trauma].

In 10 to 66% blunt chest traumata lead to cardiac traumata. As it is shown in our special collective (n = 12) injuries of the pericardial sac of the myocardium, of the myocardial septum, of the coronary arteries and of the cardiac valves have occurred. Therefore clinical symptoms are various and the diagnosis remains difficult with regard to the causative polytrauma. Bleedings and/or pericardial tamponade caused by rupture of the atrial or ventricular wall, injury of main coronary vessels or cardiac dislocation after pericardial rupture urgently require a surgical intervention. Aneurysms caused by blunt trauma, ventricular septal defects, valve insufficiencies may be mostly treated in the interval.