Citation

Weiner Y, Berkenstadt H, Segal E. Am. J. Emerg. Med. 1996; 14(2): 186-188.

Affiliation

Department of General Surgery and Vascular Surgery, Haim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine, Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8924145

Abstract

Blunt traumatic rupture of the left ventricle of the heart is rarely diagnosed preoperatively and is usually fatal, with only a few survivors reported in the literature. This report describes a case of a 54-year-old woman who survived a left ventricular rupture from a motor vehicle accident. Her cardiac injury was not suspected because she was not hypotensive and had no signs of pericardial tamponade. She developed circulatory arrest 2 hours after her injury, during induction of anesthesia.

Language: en