• Int Surg · Jan 2001

    Case Reports

    Cardiac herniation mimics cardiac tamponade in blunt trauma. Must early resuscitative thoracotomy be done?

    • F S Collet e Silva, F José Neto, A M Figueredo, B Fontes, R S Poggetti, and D Birolini.
    • Emergency Surgery Department, The Hospital Das Clinicas University of São Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil. fscollet@terra.com.br
    • Int Surg. 2001 Jan 1;86(1):72-5.

    AbstractBlunt rupture of the pericardium is a rare injury. Strangulated cardiac hernia following blunt trauma is one cause of reversible cardiac arrest. Traumatic pericardial tears usually have delayed diagnoses and carry high mortality rates (64%). Clinical signs mimic cardiac tamponade during the primary survey. We report here two cases of blunt trauma. Both patients arrived alive in the emergency room and presented signs of cardiac tamponade caused by pericardial rupture.

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