BACKGROUND Pneumopericardium is a rare complication following thoracic trauma, and urgent treatment is rendered necessary when it causes tension pneumopericardium due to cardiac tamponade. CASE REPORT The case presented here is a right pericardial laceration with tension pneumopericardium due to falling from a height, presenting to the emergency clinic of our hospital with hemodynamic instabi...

Traumatic diaphragmatic injuries are rare complications resulting from a thoracic-abdominal blunt or penetrating trauma. Diaphragmatic injury is entity and clinically difficult to be diagnosed as symptoms often masked due associated in poly trauma case. There no specific signs for diagnosing rupture. High degree of clinical suspicion needed all cases thoroco-abdominal diagnose case Left sided m...

BACKGROUND Over the past, the severe thoracic trauma has had decisive influence on the outcome of multiple injured patients. Today, new therapies (e.g. extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), protective ventilation methods and new forms of patient positioning) are available and applied regularly. What impact on the patient's outcome does the thoracic trauma have today? METHODS Prospective...

A 58-yr-old male was admitted with blunt thoracic and abdominal trauma. Transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) was performed acutely to determine the cause of intrathoracic haemorrhage. We found atrial septal haematoma and tear, which have not been described previously, and which may be useful indicators of major intrathoracic venous tears which are always difficult to diagnose. Although the o...

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The use of ultrasound in the evaluation of blunt thoraco-abdominal trauma is well described. Evidence for the use of ultrasound in the evaluation of penetrating cardio-thoracic and abdominal trauma, however, is more limited and varied. Current literature demonstrates that ultrasound is an excellent screening tool for penetrating thoracic and cardiac injuries with a high sensitivity for detectin...

Traumatic chylothorax other than iatrogenic thoracic duct injury is extremely rare in children. Chylothorax can cause cardiopulmonary abnormalities and significant nutritional, metabolic and immunologic consequences. The management of chylothorax ranges from conservative treatment to surgical intervention. We present a four-year-old boy who presented with respiratory difficulty due to multiple ...

INTRODUCTION Cardiac injury resulting from blunt thoracic trauma is a frequent clinical occurrence which is difficult to diagnose. Our purpose in this study was to research whether H-FABP, which is a new marker for the diagnosis of cardiac injury, can be used in this patient group. METHODS 50 patients with blunt thoracic injury who were admitted to our emergency service within a period of 8 m...