Abstract
A clinical evaluation was performed on 11 cases of the cardiac rupture by blunt chest trauma at the department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, Yeungnam University Hospital during the period from July, 1993 to May, 1995. The results were as follows ; The sex distribution was 8 mem and one women, and mean age was 41 years old. The causes of accident was traffic accident in most cases. And then one case was cultivator accident and another one was fall down. The average times from trauma to admission was 139 minutes and the patients that transferred via other hospitals have relatively long average times to 227 minutes. The average times from admission to operation was 117 minutes and we consumed 25 minutes for the preoperative preparation. The sites of injury were 7 cases in the right heart and 3 cases in the left heart. There were symptoms and signs of the cardiac tamponade(dyspnea, chest pain, nausea/vomitus, neck vein distention & hypovolemic shock) at admission and in most of them typical symptoms and signs of a tamponade appeared. Surgical approach was performed with median sternotomy in 10 cases. Subxiphoid pericardial window was created in one case. Another case which was very difficult in surgical procedure was operated under cardiopulmonary bypass and the result was good.
영남대학교 흉부외과학교실에서는 93년7월부터 95년 5월까지 흉부 둔상에 의한 심장파열로 발생한 심장압전 환자에서 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 남녀비는 10:1로 남자가 절대적으로 많았으며, 평균 41세로 주로 활동하는 젊은 남자였다. 원인은 대부분 환자가 교통사고에 의해서 발생하였으며 압박사고와 추락에 의한 경우가 각 1례씩이었다. 수상후 내원까지는 평균 139분이 소요되었으나 그 중 다른 병원을 거쳐서 내원한 경우는 비교적 많은 227분이 소요되었고, 내원후 수술 까지는 평균 117분이 소요되었으며, 수술 지연시간은 평균 25분이었다. 발생부위는 우심실이 2례, 우심방이 5례 좌심실이 2례, 좌심방이 1례로서 확인되지 않은 1례를 제외하고 우측 심장에서 더 많이 발생하였다. 내원시 호소하는 증상으로는 호흡곤란, 흉통과 오심 및 구토이 많았으며, 대다수의 환자들이 특징적인 심장압전의 증상을 나타냈다. 수술은 정중 흉골절개를 통한 직접 봉합이 대부분이었으나 직접 봉합이 어려웠던 1례에서는 심폐기를 사용하여 시행되었고 1례를 제외한 전례에서 양호한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.
