blunt chest traumas mostly occur due to car accidents and can cause many cardiac complications such as septal rupture, free-wall rupture, coronary artery dissection or thrombosis, heart failure, arrhythmias, and chordae and papillary muscle rupture. one of the most serious complication is tricuspid regurgitation (tr), which can be simply diagnosed by physical examination and confirmed by echoca...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence and demographic characteristics of patients experiencing cardiac rupture after thrombolytic and adjunctive anticoagulant therapy and to identify possible associations between the mechanism of thrombin inhibition (indirect, direct) and the intensity of systemic anticoagulation with its occurrence. BACKGROUND Cardiac rupture is r...

Cardiac tamponade is an important and potentially lethal complication of acute pericarditis. However, recurrence of cardiac tamponade is rare when it is treated appropriately. We present a 49-year-old man with bacterial pericarditis and recurrent cardiac tamponade, which was caused by the rupture of an upper part of the left atrium (LA). According to the autopsy findings, bacteremia from Staphy...

BACKGROUND Focused assessment with sonography in trauma (FAST) is widely used and endorsed by guidelines, but little evidence exists regarding the utility of the cardiac portion in blunt trauma. The traditional FAST includes the routine performance of cardiac sonography, regardless of risk for hemopericardium. STUDY OBJECTIVES Our goal was to estimate the prevalence of hemopericardium due to ...

BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE Hemodynamics play an important role in the mechanisms of aneurysm formation, growth, and rupture. However, little is known about the hemodynamics of rupture sites. CLINICAL PRESENTATION We incidentally acquired 3-dimensional images before and at the moment of rebleeding of a cerebral aneurysm in a patient. Comparison of these 2 images enabled precise identification o...

For the past 20 years, the in-hospital mortality rate of acute myocardial infarction has significantly decreased to less than 10%. This reduction can be attributed mainly to the development of acute-phase treatment such as reperfusion therapy. However, cardiogenic shock and cardiac rupture dominate more than 70% of the causes of death. CCUs have made efforts to treat these problems whose mortal...