Secondary left ventricular injury with haemopericardium caused by a rib fracture after blunt chest trauma

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 unu...

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Autores principales: Kaul, Pankaj, Somsekhar, Ganti, Macauley, Graeme
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1459158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16722596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-8
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-14591582006-05-11 Secondary left ventricular injury with haemopericardium caused by a rib fracture after blunt chest trauma Kaul, Pankaj Somsekhar, Ganti Macauley, Graeme J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report 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. BioMed Central 2006-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC1459158/ /pubmed/16722596 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-8 Text en Copyright © 2006 Kaul et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Secondary left ventricular injury with haemopericardium caused by a rib fracture after blunt chest trauma
title Secondary left ventricular injury with haemopericardium caused by a rib fracture after blunt chest trauma
title_full Secondary left ventricular injury with haemopericardium caused by a rib fracture after blunt chest trauma
title_fullStr Secondary left ventricular injury with haemopericardium caused by a rib fracture after blunt chest trauma
title_full_unstemmed Secondary left ventricular injury with haemopericardium caused by a rib fracture after blunt chest trauma
title_short Secondary left ventricular injury with haemopericardium caused by a rib fracture after blunt chest trauma
title_sort secondary left ventricular injury with haemopericardium caused by a rib fracture after blunt chest trauma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1459158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16722596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-8
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