| Autor: |
C L, Cuadros, J E, Hutchinson, A H, Mogtader |
| Rok vydání: |
1984 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 88(1) |
| ISSN: |
0022-5223 |
| Popis: |
A case is presented of a steering wheel injury to the chest, in which the initial clue to significant cardiac injury was a new murmur and abnormal electrocardiogram. Precise preoperative echocardiographic evaluation revealed a combination of injuries consisting of (1) mitral incompetence secondary to partial laceration of a papillary muscle, (2) circumferential laceration of the aortic root contained by the adventitia, and (3) rupture of the pericardium. Operative correction of the mitral and aortic root lesions was performed 9 days after the injury. Twelve other cases of successful surgical correction of traumatic mitral incompetence are reviewed and compared. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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