منابع مشابه
Non-penetrating cardiac and aortic trauma.
Accepted for publication 15 May 1997 Blunt, non-penetrating trauma to the heart and great vessels occurs most commonly following road traffic accidents. Other causes include direct blows to the chest, falls from great heights, sporting and industrial injuries, and kicks by animals. The potential mechanisms by which blunt chest trauma can result in cardiac and aortic injury have been described a...
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A previously healthy, x8-year-old man was transferred to Stanford Medical Center as a potential cardiac donor 20 hours after suffering severe head injury. Because of a systolic heart murmur, left ventricular angiography was performed and showed obvious mitral insufficiency. At necropsy the heart was normal exceptfor haemorrhagic necrosis within the tips of the mitral papillary muscles. Thus, pa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.78.3.226