심장손상

Abstract

Recently experienced three cases of penetrating cardiac injuries were reviewed. The first case was a traumatic interventricular septal defect confirmed by right heart catheterization. Systolic murmur with thrill along the left stermal border, followed by the rapid progression of congestive heart failure , appeared during his convalescent period after successful cardiorrhaphy of myocardial stab wound. The foreign bodies in thorax and heart was removed by early thoracotomy in the second case who had introduced three needles into her chest in an attempt for suicide. And the last case was a stab wound of left thorax treated by early replacement of blood volume, closed tube drainage for hemothorax, and prompt cardiorrhaphy on the left ventricle successfully.