A case of mitral incompetence and multiple ventricular septal defects following a non-penetrating chest injury is described. Cardiac injury was detected by electrocardiogram and by the appearance of a heart murmur in the second week after trauma. Superimposition of bacterial endocarditis seven years later caused cardiac decompensation and necessitated successful surgical treatment. Previous rep...

Trauma is the leading cause of mortality in children over one year of age in industrialized countries. In this retrospective study we reviewed all chest trauma in pediatric patients admitted to Mansoura University Emergency Hospital from January 1997 to January 2007. Our hospital received 472 patients under the age of 18. Male patients were 374 with a mean age of 9.2±4.9 years. Causes were pene...

Trauma is the leading cause of mortality in children over one year of age in industrialized countries. In this retrospective study we reviewed all chest trauma in pediatric patients admitted to Mansoura University Emergency Hospital from January 1997 to January 2007. Our hospital received 472 patients under the age of 18. Male patients were 374 with a mean age of 9.2±4.9 years. Causes were pene...

Ten patients were seen in Northern Syria with tracheobronchial injury from June 1986 to July 1988. Eight were male; and five were children. Blunt trauma was the cause of rupture in five and penetrating trauma in five. Nine patients had associated injuries. In seven, the diagnosis was made within 24 h. The seven patients who had surgery were well at last follow-up, as was a child with a main bro...

We describe an 81-year-old man presenting to the emergency department with an unwitnessed syncope. All initial examinations and investigations were non-diagnostic. He was admitted for observation, during which he developed type 1 respiratory failure and mild fever. Computerised tomography of pulmonary angiography (CTPA) was carried out to rule out pulmonary embolism. This revealed a foreign bod...

INTRODUCTION Post-traumatic pulmonary pseudocyst is an uncommon cavitary lesion of the lung and develops after blunt chest trauma and even more rarely following penetrating injuries. It is generally seen in young adults presenting with cough, chest pain, hemoptysis, and dyspnea. Post-traumatic pulmonary pseudocyst should be included in the differential diagnosis of cavitary pulmonary lesions. W...

BACKGROUND No consensus exists as to whether antibiotic prophylaxis in tube thoracostomy as primary treatment for traumatic chest injuries reduces the incidence of surgical-site and pleural cavity infections. METHODS A systematic literature search was performed according to PRISMA guidelines to identify randomized clinical trials on antibiotic prophylaxis in tube thoracostomy for traumatic ch...

Background: Globally chest trauma accounts for 10% of trauma admission and 25% of trauma deaths. Outcome of chest trauma depends on causes and mechanism of the injury, pattern of lesions and presence of associated injuries. Objective:To study the aetiology, injury pattern, management and outcome of chest trauma in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM), Kelantan,Malaysia. Methods: Records of...

Penetrating chest trauma can be used as an indicator of violence in the country. We aimed to look at the changes in its incidence and management at a major trauma centre in the country. We also wanted to look at any effect of prehospital time on surgical intervention and outcome of the victim. In this retrospective descriptive study, we observed the presentation and management of 191 penetratin...

We report here an uncommon anterior chest trauma with an unusual fatal penetrating coronary artery injury by pneumatic nail gun with effective perioperative management. While doing upholstery, a 32-year-old male patient accidentally stabbed by a pneumatic nail gun with injury to the anterior chest was brought to the emergency room of our hospital. Persistent chest pain with unstable vital signs...