Honda K, Koishizawa T, Nonaka K, Fujiki T, Sasagawa N, Tonari K, Sato M, Sudo K, Watanabe K, Shimazaki S, Miyata T
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyourin University, School of Medicine, Mitaka, Japan.
Kyobu Geka. 1996 Jun;49(6):471-4.
This is a case report of a 23 year old female involved in a car accident that caused blunt trauma to the patient. First of all, she was found to have cardiac tamponade when the abdomen was explored to suture and to put the gaze compression on for hemostasis of the ruptured liver. Then, she was brought to our institution by the ambulance. Upon the exploration of the heart under standby of extracorporal circulation (ECC), small multiple lacerations were found at the junction of the right atrium and superior vena cava. These were sutured directly to close without ECC. On the 2nd postoperative day, she was bought to the OR again to removal of the gaze tamponade from the ruptured liver and to complete hemostasis. The patient was discarded 35 days after admission.
