Citation

Sablone S, Bellino M, Introna F. Trauma Case Rep 2022; 42: e100697.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.tcr.2022.100697

PMID

36158164

PMCID

PMC9489524

Abstract

Heart lacerations following a non-penetrating chest trauma are rare events, few described in the literature. We report the case of a young woman who died just after a road accident, which determined a blunt thoracic trauma, with perforation of the right ventricle and the contiguous pericardium portion, and compound fractures of the sternum and the left ribs. The case presented is a rare evidence of indirect heart trauma, meaning that there was no correspondence between the chest impact/fracture site and the heart/pericardial lacerations.

Language: en

Keywords

Cardiac injury; Heart laceration; Non-penetrating chest trauma; Pericardium laceration; Road accident