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ArticleAcute medicine & surgery

Penetrating cardiac injury caused by multiple rib fractures following high-energy trauma: Usefulness of the exploratory video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

Keisuke Tetsumoto, Masakazu Takayama, Tadaaki Koyama, Hidenao Kayawake, Masao Saito, Ken Nakamura, Yutaka Takahashi, Hiroshi Hamakawa

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Article in Acute medicine & surgery. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Keisuke TetsumotoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital Kobe Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5796-507X
Masakazu TakayamaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital Kobe Japan.
Tadaaki KoyamaDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital Kobe Japan.
Hidenao KayawakeDepartment of Thoracic Surgery Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital Kobe Japan.
Masao SaitoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital Kobe Japan.
Ken NakamuraDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital Kobe Japan.
Yutaka TakahashiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital Kobe Japan.
Hiroshi HamakawaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital Kobe Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5850-2407
Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital · JPHyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Penetrating cardiac injuries are usually fatal and associated with poor survival rates. Case Presentation: A 69-year-old man was injured in a motor vehicle accident and suffered from left hemothorax and multiple rib fractures near the heart. A comprehensive assessment raised suspicions of lacerated pericardium and myocardial injury. Consequently, a thoracoscopy was performed 9 h after injury. A penetrating cardiac injury was detected and surgically treated via video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. The patient recovered uneventfully and was discharged on postoperative day 16. Conclusion: Exploratory video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery may play a key role in the primary diagnosis of patients with high-energy chest traumas with cardiac injury and simultaneously allow for the appropriate surgical interventions.

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penetrating injuryrib fracturetraumatroponinvideo‐assisted thoracoscopic surgery

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PMID38596161
PMCPMC11002335
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