Journal of Trauma and Injury

The Korean Society of Traumatology (대한외상학회)
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A Case of Cardiac Laceration due to Anterior Thoracic Stab Injury

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  • Woo, Won Gi (Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Jang, Ji Young (Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Lee, Seung Hwan (Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Lee, Chang Young (Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Lee, Jae Gil (Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
  • 우원기 (연세대학교 의과대학 흉부외과학교실) ;
  • 장지영 (연세대학교 의과대학 외과학교실) ;
  • 이승환 (연세대학교 의과대학 외과학교실) ;
  • 이창영 (연세대학교 의과대학 흉부외과학교실) ;
  • 이재길 (연세대학교 의과대학 외과학교실)
  • Received : 2013.12.13
  • Accepted : 2014.07.08
  • Published : 2014.09.30
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Abstract

Among chest trauma patients, cardiac laceration is a rare, but severe, condition requiring prompt management. Depending on the patient's hemodynamic status, early detection rate of a cardiac laceration may or may not be occur. If a possibility of cardiac laceration exists, an emergent thoracotomy should be performed. Furthermore, patients who experience a cardiac laceration also experience different kinds of complications. Therefore, close follow-up and monitoring are required. Herein, we report a 41-year-old man with a left atrium and a left ventricle laceration caused by a thoracic stab injury.

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