TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1996//
TI  - Survival after left ventricular rupture following blunt chest injury
JO  - American journal of emergency medicine
A1  - Weiner, Y.
A1  - Berkenstadt, H.
A1  - Segal, E.
SP  - 186
EP  - 188
VL  - 14
IS  - 2
N2  - Blunt traumatic rupture of the left ventricle of the heart is rarely diagnosed preoperatively and is usually fatal, with only a few survivors reported in the literature. This report describes a case of a 54-year-old woman who survived a left ventricular rupture from a motor vehicle accident. Her cardiac injury was not suspected because she was not hypotensive and had no signs of pericardial tamponade. She developed circulatory arrest 2 hours after her injury, during induction of anesthesia.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0735-6757
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -