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- A Case of Cardiac Laceration due to Anterior Thoracic Stab Injury
- Won Gi Woo, Ji Young Jang, Seung Hwan Lee, Chang Young Lee, Jae Gil Lee
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Journal of Trauma and Injury 2014;27(3):71-74
DOI: https://doi.org/
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1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. jakii@yuhs.ac
2Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
2Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Received: 13 December 2013 • Revised: 10 June 2014 • Accepted: 8 July 2014
Abstract
Among chest trauma patients, cardiac laceration is a rare, but severe, condition requiring prompt management. Depending on the patient's hemodynamic status, early detection rate of a cardiac laceration may or may not be occur. If a possibility of cardiac laceration exists, an emergent thoracotomy should be performed. Furthermore, patients who experience a cardiac laceration also experience different kinds of complications. Therefore, close follow-up and monitoring are required. Herein, we report a 41-year-old man with a left atrium and a left ventricle laceration caused by a thoracic stab injury.
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