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Case Reports
. 2021 Feb 18:32:100430.
doi: 10.1016/j.tcr.2021.100430. eCollection 2021 Apr.

Direct cardiac rupture associated with sternal fracture following blunt trauma: A report of two case

Dae Sung Ma  1 , Jae-Wook Ryu  1 , Dongsub Noh  1
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Direct cardiac rupture associated with sternal fracture following blunt trauma: A report of two case

Dae Sung Ma et al. Trauma Case Rep. .

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Abstract

Traumatic cardiac injury is not rare. Especially cardiac contusion with sternal fracture due to blunt trauma in common. But cardiac rupture due to direct injury from fractured sternum in very rare. There were two case of cardiac injury supposed to be due to direct injury from fractured sternum. We operated immediately, so we could save these patients. Our cases show that it's rare but blunt trauma could make sternum fracture with direct injury to right side heart.

Keywords: Blunt trauma; Cardiac injury; Sternal fracture.

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Fig. 1
His chest CT showed bilateral lung contusion, bilateral hemopneumothorax (A), sternal body fracture and ruptured pericardium with hemopericardium (B).
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Post-operative CT showed no extravasation at RVOT. There were pledged suture (yellow arrow) and JP drains (red arrow). (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
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Computed Tomography showed sternal body fracture and moderate amount of hemopericardium.
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