A fatal case of heart and pericardium rupture after non-penetrating chest trauma by road accident.

Cardiac injury Heart laceration Non-penetrating chest trauma Pericardium laceration Road accident

Journal

Trauma case reports
ISSN: 2352-6440
Titre abrégé: Trauma Case Rep
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101711730

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Dec 2022
Historique:
accepted: 13 09 2022
entrez: 26 9 2022
pubmed: 27 9 2022
medline: 27 9 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Heart lacerations following a non-penetrating chest trauma are rare events, few described in the literature. We report the case of a young woman who died just after a road accident, which determined a blunt thoracic trauma, with perforation of the right ventricle and the contiguous pericardium portion, and compound fractures of the sternum and the left ribs. The case presented is a rare evidence of indirect heart trauma, meaning that there was no correspondence between the chest impact/fracture site and the heart/pericardial lacerations.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36158164
doi: 10.1016/j.tcr.2022.100697
pii: S2352-6440(22)00093-0
pmc: PMC9489524
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Pagination

100697

Informations de copyright

© 2022 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Auteurs

Sara Sablone (S)

Section of Legal Medicine, Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, Bari Policlinico Hospital, University of Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy.

Mara Bellino (M)

Section of Legal Medicine, Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, Bari Policlinico Hospital, University of Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy.

Francesco Introna (F)

Section of Legal Medicine, Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, Bari Policlinico Hospital, University of Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy.

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