We present a case of a severe osteoporotic octogenarian who sustained serious flail chest from a traffic accident. The 3rd-9th ribs of the right chest wall were fractured. Non-operative management was unsuccessful. We performed a surgical fixation using a bio-absorbable and bio-active mini-plating set. This plating set is unsintered hydroxyapatite (u-HA) particles/poly-L-lactide (PLLA) composit...

Case A 61-year-old man was diagnosed with severe chest trauma after a car accident and had had difficulty in weaning from a ventilator because of flail chest and dilated cardiomyopathy. On the 17th day in the intensive care unit, he received i.v. acetazolamide to increase urine output. One hour after the injection, he suddenly developed severe hypoxia. Chest radiography revealed a butterfly sha...

BACKGROUND There has been scant academic consideration paid to investigations of mitral leaflet flail in terms of clinical profile, surgical strategy, and surgical outcome. METHODS One hundred consecutive patients with mitral leaflet flail referred for surgical treatment in the past 4(2/3) years were included in this study. RESULTS The most common reasons leading to mitral leaflet flail wer...

Rib fractures are among the most common injuries found in a patient presenting from blunt trauma. They associated with significant morbidity and mortality, largely due to pulmonary complications. Open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) has been mainstay treatment for patients multiple rib fractures. In this report, we present case of that sustained thoracic trauma anterolateral fractures, inclu...