A severe penetrating cardiac injury in the absence of cardiac tamponade.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
; 24(2): 286-287, 2017 02 01.
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ABSTRACT
Penetrating cardiac injury is rare and frequently not survivable. Significant haemorrhage resulting in cardiac tamponade commonly ensues. Such cardiac tamponade is a clear clinical, radiological and sonographic indicator of significant underlying injury. In the absence of cardiac tamponade, diagnosis can be more challenging. In this case of a 26-year old sailor stabbed at sea, a significant pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade did not occur despite an injury transversing the pericardium. Instead, the pericardial haemorrhage drained into the left pleural cavity resulting in a haemothorax. This case is notable due to a favourable outcome despite a delay in diagnosis due to a lack of pericardial effusion, a concomitant cerebrovascular event and a long delay from injury to appropriate medical treatment in the presence of a penetrating cardiac wound deep enough to cause a muscular ventricular septal defect and lacerate a primary chordae of the anterior mitral leaflet.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Heridas Punzantes
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Lesiones Cardíacas
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Válvula Mitral
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
Asunto de la revista:
ANGIOLOGIA
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CARDIOLOGIA
Año:
2017
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Irlanda