Penetrating wounds of the heart and great vessels. Experience with 24 cases including 3 with intracardiac defects.

Coronary artery-atrioventricular fistula and ventricular septal defect due to penetrating wound of the heart.

ALTHOUGH wounds of the heart have interested man from antiquity, it was not until 1896 that the first successful repair of a cardiac laceration was carried out by Rehn.1 By 1958 with the advent of modern diagnostic and surgical technics there were many comprehensive reports of penetrating heart wounds with survival (cited by Parmley et al.2 ). In civilian practice the majority of such penetrati...

Successful Removal of a Rivet from the Heart of a Boy with Penetrating Cardiac Injury: A case Report and Literature Review

Introduction: Penetrating cardiac injuries generally occur secondary to gunshot or stab wounds and have a high mortality rate. They are rare and often fatal in children. When a foreign object penetrates the myocardium, it is dangerous to remove it, suddenly, and should be removed gradually to prevent excessive bleeding. Case report: We report a case of an unusual penetrating cardiac injury in a...

Origin of both great vessels from the right ventricle without pulmonary stenosis.

AMONG the congenital malformations in t& which an abnormal relationship exists between the aorta and pulmonary trunk is that in which both of these vessels arise from the right ventricle. The only outlet for the left ventricle is a ventricular septal defect. Right ventricular infundibular stenosis may or may not be associated. These cases apparently are extremely rare,1-3 and only a few have be...

Penetrating wounds of the heart and great vessels. A report of 30 patients.

Juxtaposition of atrial appendages associated with normally oriented ventricles and great arteries.

A case is reported of a stillborn infant in whom both atrial appendages lay to one side of the great arteries, so-called juxtaposition of the atrial appendages. The unusual features of the case reported are twofold. First, both atrial appendages lay to the right of the great vessels while, more commonly, juxtaposed atrial appendages lie to the left of the aorta and pulmonary trunk. Second, in o...