Penetrating cardiac injuries. Two case reports.
| Autor: | Castriconi M, Festa P, Bartone G, Maglio MD, Vicenzo L, Papaleo D, Severino BU, Clemente M, Martino A |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Annali italiani di chirurgia [Ann Ital Chir] 2013 Apr 24; Vol. 84 (ePub). Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Apr 24. |
| Abstrakt: | Introduction: Penetrating cardiac injuries is still a diagnostic problem at this time. Their management requires immediate surgical intervention and excellent surgical critical care postoperatively. Presentation of Cases: A 15-year old male patient was stabbed with a knife to the right chest. The chest radiograph showed an haemothorax and the angiography showed an intercostals artery and a right auricle injury. After an emergency operation the patient was released home in good condition after the toracotomy had healed. A 19-year old male patient was stabbed with a knife to the chest more than once. By a left toracotomy we sutured the lesion of the left ventricle with multiple single stitch in non-absorbable suture, we covered the suture with a sealant. The patient released home in 24 days. Discussion: Penetrating cardiac injuries is one of the leading cause of death from urban violence. To evaluate a thoracic trauma with cardiac injury it's clear the use of thorax X-ray and multislice angio-Tc scan. Echocardiography has clearly emerged for the diagnosis in patients haemodynamically stable. When the patient is haemodynamically unstable the emergency thoracotomy is mandatory. Conclusion: Despite the high mortality of penetrating cardiac injuries new surgical and radiological tecniques may help surgeon to save this patients. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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