Cardiac Trauma

Cardiac trauma.

The treatment of trauma to the heart has been written about since 3000 BC and had an inauspicious beginning. Until the late 19th century, the commonly held belief agreed with Boerhaave’s sentiments that, “all penetrating cardiac trauma is fatal.” Theodore Billroth warned, “The surgeon who should attempt to suture a wound of the heart would lose the respect of his colleagues.” Paget believed tha...

Cardiac injuries in blunt chest trauma

Blunt chest traumas are a clinical challenge, both for diagnosis and treatment. The use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance can play a major role in this setting. We present two cases: a 12-year-old boy and 45-year-old man. Late gadolinium enhancement imaging enabled visualization of myocardial damage resulting from the trauma.

Blunt cardiac trauma: right atrioventricular groove rupture.

Seong Cheol Jeong, Si Young Choi, Jae Jun Kim and Yong Hwan Kim* Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea * Corresponding author. Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital 65-1, Geumo-dong, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do, 480-821, South Korea. Tel: +82-31-8203586; fax: +82-31-8472934; e-mail: cmccs@na...

London Trauma and Cardiac Arrest Conference 2013

The seventh London Trauma Conference was once again held at The Royal Geographical Society in London from 10–13 December 2013. Over four days the latest innovations and best practice in cardiac, trauma and pre-hospital trauma care were presented and discussed. It opened with the London Cardiac Arrest Symposium, kindly sponsored by Zoll, with Dr David Zideman providing the Douglas Chamberlain Le...

Multiple peripheral emboli after cardiac trauma.