1. Blunt cardiac rupture in a toddler
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Sten Saar, Erast-Henri Noor, Mari-Liis Ilmoja, Karl-Gunnar Isand, Peep Talving, Günter Taal, Rein Kruusat, Andrus Remmelgas, and Sandra Teppo
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Toddler ,medicine.medical_treatment ,lcsh:Surgery ,Right atrial ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Blunt ,medicine ,Domestic Accident ,030212 general & internal medicine ,business.industry ,Cardiac Rupture ,lcsh:RJ1-570 ,lcsh:Pediatrics ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,lcsh:RD1-811 ,Surgery ,Fatal injury ,Blunt trauma ,Median sternotomy ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,business ,Cardiac rupture - Abstract
Blunt cardiac rupture is typically a fatal injury with overall mortality exceeding 90%. Most of the patients never reach the hospital alive. In pediatric patients, only 0.03% of cases following blunt trauma admissions have a cardiac injury. This report presents a rare survivor of 16-months old toddler injured in a domestic accident suffering a right atrial rupture repaired through a median sternotomy. To the best of our knowledge this is the youngest case reported in the literature.
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- 2016
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