Penetrating Cardiac Injury: Case Report
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2014Yazar
Groblar, Adem
Korkmaz, Ozge
Sapmaz, Ismail
Saba, Tonguc
Sapmaz, Feride
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Penetrating cardiac injurys caused by gunshots and penetrating tools have high mortality rates. The way of injury, how the cardiac area is effected and the presence of cardiac tamponadecauses mortality in different rates. However the better treatment quality of hospitals, increasingoperative techniques, and internel care unit quality has not been change during the years. Searching the literature, we want to present a 42 years old male patient who was injured by knife and had a 1 cm skin wound on chest with cardiac tamponade. After sternotomy a 7 cm laseration was observed in heart. Cardioraphy was performed.