Blunt chest trauma can lead to a variety of cardiac injuries, one of which is nonatherosclerotic myocardial infarction caused by intimal laceration and thrombotic process activation. Here we present a case of anterior myocardial infarction secondary to blunt trauma involving a kick to the chest.

HYPOTHESIS A significant rate of postdischarge complications is associated with penetrating cardiac injuries. DESIGN Retrospective trauma registry review. SETTING Level I trauma center. PATIENTS All patients sustaining penetrating cardiac injuries between January 2000 and June 2010. Patient demographics, clinical data, operative findings, outpatient follow-up, echocardiogram results, and ...

Although metoclopramide (MCP) administration after trauma-hemorrhage restores the depressed immune functions, it remains unknown whether this agent has any salutary effects on the depressed cardiovascular and hepatocellular functions under those conditions. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats underwent a midline laparotomy (i.e., induction of soft-tissue trauma) and were then bled to and maintained ...

Pediatric trauma is commonly encountered in the emergency department, and trauma to the head, chest, and abdomen may be a source of significant morbidity and mortality. As children have unique thoracic anatomical and physiological properties, they may present with diagnostic challenges that the emergency clinician must be aware of. This review examines the effects of blunt trauma to the pediatr...

Cardiac injury is a common but occasionally serious complication of blunt chest trauma. A ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is a rare complication and is variable in its presentation, temporal course and severity. Here, we report a rare case of 75-year-old man who developed delayed VSR following blunt chest trauma.

tree, which showed no evidence of tears or fresh blood. A left chest drain was inserted with immediate drainage of 1600 ml of blood. The drain was removed after three days, with a chest radiograph before discharge (eight days) showing regression of the mediastinal haematoma and expansion of the lung. In this case, despite the moderate trauma, both the chest radiography and computed tomography r...

Whereas hypertonic saline-dextran (HSD, 7.5% NaCl in 6% D70) improves cardiac contractile function after burn trauma, the mechanisms of HSD-related cardioprotection remain unclear. We recently showed that cardiomyocytes secrete tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), a response that was enhanced by burn trauma. This study addressed the question: does HSD modulate cardiac contraction/relaxation...

Blunt chest traumas are a clinical challenge, both for diagnosis and treatment. The use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance can play a major role in this setting. We present two cases: a 12-year-old boy and 45-year-old man. Late gadolinium enhancement imaging enabled visualization of myocardial damage resulting from the trauma.

Seong Cheol Jeong, Si Young Choi, Jae Jun Kim and Yong Hwan Kim* Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea * Corresponding author. Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital 65-1, Geumo-dong, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do, 480-821, South Korea. Tel: +82-31-8203586; fax: +82-31-8472934; e-mail: cmccs@na...

BACKGROUND Severe burn trauma leads to an immediate and strong inflammatory response inciting cardiac dysfunction that is associated with high morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to determine whether transdermal application of nicotine could influence the burn-induced cardiac dysfunction via its known immunomodulatory effects. MATERIAL AND METHODS A standardized rat burn model ...