Citation

Osaka M, Nagai R, Koishizawa T. Gen. Thorac Cardiovasc. Surg. 2017; 65(11): 646-649.

Affiliation

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ibaraki Seinan Medical Center Hospital, 2190 Sakaimachi, Sashima-gun, Ibaraki, 306-0433, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s11748-017-0749-1

PMID

28150060

Abstract

A 49-year-old man was transferred to our hospital by ambulance due to blunt chest trauma sustained in a car accident. Echocardiography and enhanced computed tomography showed hemopericardium without other vital organ damage. Emergent surgery was performed under strong suspicion of traumatic cardiac rupture. Careful inspection showed a rupture of the right upper pulmonary vein at the junction of the left atrium, a laceration of the inferior vena cava, and a left-side pericardium rupture, and they were repaired with running 4-0 polypropylene suture. Postoperative hemodynamics were stable. The patient was discharged ambulatory on postoperative day 15.

Language: en

Keywords

Blunt chest trauma; Cardiac rupture; Pulmonary vein; Rupture