Non-penetrating injuries of the chest wall can give rise to a variety of cardiac lesions. The extent of cardiac damage depends on the intensity of the injury and on pre-existent disease of the heart. In the majority of cases there is a direct blow to the anterior chest wall but serious myocardial damage has been produced by blows directed against the posterior chest wall and abdomen. The crushi...

INTRODUCTION The Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma examination is an invaluable tool in the initial assessment of any injured patient. Although highly sensitive and accurate for identifying hemoperitoneum, occasional false negative results do occur in select scenarios. We present a previously unreported case of survival following blunt cardiac rupture with associated negative perica...

We present the first case of left ventricular (LV) rupture after myocardial infarction treated with only extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans after treatment revealed good ventricular function and a healed rupture. We show for the first time the use of ECMO as a means of supporting a patient with LV rupture without surgery. Furthermore, it has the p...

Although occurance of sudden and extensive hemorrhage is not a new subject, however due to high morbidity and mortality a high level of experience and expertise is required to control the situation.Single adrenaline injction that is fast and very potent has been used in order to maintain BP and help the use of blood saved in other parts of the body.Durring 1375 to 1381 a total of 8 patients wer...

We report a case of fatal cardiac rupture occurring during intraarterial thrombolytic therapy for acute embolic stroke in a patient with recent myocardial infarction.

A blowout cardiac rupture is sudden and dramatic. The most appropriate surgical repair remains controversial. We report our experience with blowout rupture treated by sutureless technique. The two cases were males aged 58 and 79 years respectively. Echocardiography confirmed the diagnosis of cardiac rupture. Resuscitation was continued in the operating suite, and the myocardial tear and necroti...

SINCE the first description of rupture of the heart by William Harvey in 1647, this dramatic termination of life has attracted the attention of clinicians and pathologists alike. The anatomist Morgagni,' whose own life ended at the age of 79 with this disease, collected 10 cases in 1765. By 1928, 734 cases had been culled from the world literature by Davenport2 and subsequently many more review...

Senescence is a recognized mechanism of cardiovascular diseases; however, its contribution to myocardial fibrosis and rupture after infarction and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here we showed that senescent cardiac fibroblasts markedly accumulated in heart after myocardial infarction. The expression of key senescence regulators, especially p53, was significantly up-regulated in the ...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Blunt cardiac rupture is an exceedingly rare injury. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of blunt cardiac trauma in a 43-year-old Caucasian German mother with pectus excavatum who presented after a car accident in which she had been sitting in the front seat holding her two-year-old boy in her arms. The mother was awake and alert during the initial two hours after th...

Left recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy rarely results from cardiac disease. We present 2 cases of left recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy caused by thoracic saccular aortic aneurysms. One patient suffered an aortic aneurysm rupture one month after the advent of hoarseness, necessitating emergency surgery with aortic arch replacement. The other patient underwent elective aortic arch replacement surge...