Miraculous Recovery After Penetrating Trauma to the Mediastinum

Traumatic injury to the mediastinum can damage critical surrounding structures, including the pericardium, aorta, and bronchial tree. We highlight a miraculous case of a 13-year-old female with no past medical history who presented to the emergency department after being impaled in the chest by a me...

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Autores principales: Mao, Allen, Rana, Hunaid N, Brackett, William Janika, Figarola, Suzy, McQuiston, Samuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33240702
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11106
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description Traumatic injury to the mediastinum can damage critical surrounding structures, including the pericardium, aorta, and bronchial tree. We highlight a miraculous case of a 13-year-old female with no past medical history who presented to the emergency department after being impaled in the chest by a metal fence post. After median sternotomy, the foreign object was removed, and the patient fortunately recovered with no permanent sequelae. The radiographic features of the injury are described, and potential unseen cardiovascular and respiratory complications are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-76825452020-11-24 Miraculous Recovery After Penetrating Trauma to the Mediastinum Mao, Allen Rana, Hunaid N Brackett, William Janika Figarola, Suzy McQuiston, Samuel Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Traumatic injury to the mediastinum can damage critical surrounding structures, including the pericardium, aorta, and bronchial tree. We highlight a miraculous case of a 13-year-old female with no past medical history who presented to the emergency department after being impaled in the chest by a metal fence post. After median sternotomy, the foreign object was removed, and the patient fortunately recovered with no permanent sequelae. The radiographic features of the injury are described, and potential unseen cardiovascular and respiratory complications are discussed. Cureus 2020-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7682545/ /pubmed/33240702 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11106 Text en Copyright © 2020, Mao et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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