diagnosis and treatment of penetrating cardiac injury one year after thoracic stab wound

Penetrating stab injury of the thoracic aorta.

A36-year-old male psychiatric nurse was stabbed in the back with a knife by a patient suffering from acute psychosis. After initial treatment in an outside hospital, he was transferred in stable cardiopulmonary condition to our department because a lung injury was suspected (Figure 1). Computed tomography performed while the knife was still in place showed that the blade had penetrated the prox...

etiology, significance, diagnosis and treatment of bruxiam

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A penetrating orbitocranial stab wound.

An unusual case of intracranial penetration of a bread knife through the orbit is described. Despite the proximity of the blade to the internal carotids, the optic nerves and chiasm, and the pituitary the patient survived with only a minimal field defect affecting the eye opposite to the entry site; otherwise no neurological or endocrine deficit was evident.

Complex cardiac stab wound.

A Penetrating Stab Wound of the Perianal Area Causing a Combined Rectal and Bladder Injury: One Case Report

Although the management of either isolated rectal or bladder injury is no more controversial, their combined effect and their optimal management has been seldom reported in the English literature. From a case report of a 45-year-old male who was found to have a combined bladder and rectal injury secondary to a stab wound of the perianal area, the authors develop a diagnostic and therapeutic alg...

Evaluation of penetrating cardiac stab wounds

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with unfavourable outcome following stab wounds to the heart in order to improve selection of patients who may benefit from resuscitative effort. METHODS From February to March, variables were collected from medical records of patients sustaining cardiac trauma. The inclusion criterion was the presence of a penetrating ca...