2014, Number 3
Penetrating cardiac injure. A case presentation
Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 1-8
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ABSTRACT
The multiple thorax lesions that compromise the cardiac area are infrequent and they present an elevated mortality. It was presented a case of a penetrating injure caused by a weapon with a cardiac lesion and tamponade. The lesion affected the left ventricle and the diaphragm and provoked a pulmonary injure in the anterior basal segments and the diaphragmatic side of the pericardium. Those injures were repaired by anterolateral left thoracotomy, myocardiography, phrenorraphy, pneumorraphy, pericardiac drainage in water seal, and double thoracotomy in Overholt probe. The patient showed a good evolution with hospital stay of 11 days. The fast and effective performance in the transportation as well as in the medical decisions applied every moment, contributed to the evolution and favourable recovery.REFERENCES
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