• Chirurg · Aug 1992

    [Surgery of blunt heart trauma].

    • A End, S Rödler, D Oturanlar, M R Müller, R Jaskulka, F Grabenwöger, and E Wolner.
    • II. Chirurgische Universitätsklinik Wien.
    • Chirurg. 1992 Aug 1;63(8):641-6.

    AbstractBetween 1972 and 1990 11 patients--all but one of them with multiple injuries--were treated surgically for blunt cardiac trauma caused by traffic accident in about 90%. Myocardial rupture (n = 3), laceration of the pericardial sac (n = 1), mitral insufficiency (n = 5; one of them in combination with atrial septal defect), ventricular septal defect (n = 1) and myocardial aneurysm (n = 1) occurred. Patients with myocardial rupture and pericardial laceration died within 2 h after admission to hospital; the other patients were successfully treated by mitral valve replacement (n = 4), mitral valvuloplasty and repair of ASD, suture repair of VSD and resection of myocardial aneurysm in one case, respectively. The interval to operation was 8 months to 12 years. Whereas pericardial tamponade caused by rupture of the atrial or ventricular wall and injuries of main coronary vessels require immediate surgical intervention, valve insufficiencies, septal defects or myocardial aneurysms may be mostly treated at a later date. Improvement of logistic measurements and the suspicion of blunt cardiac trauma followed by immediate surgical intervention may reduce the mortality rate in cases of cardiac rupture.

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