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Published in: Critical Care 1/2001

01-03-2001 | Meeting abstract

Diagnosis: heart contusion?

Authors: R Šplechtna, L Pokorný, E Hušková, D Nalos, P Obruba

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 1/2001

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Myocardial contusion can result from blunt thoracic trauma and is commonly suspected in deceleration injuries. Unfortunately, traumatic heart disease is frequently overlook and the diagnosis of myocardial contusion is often unrecognized. Also the frequency and prognostic influence of cardiac injury in patient with blunt trauma is contraversial. Myocardial contusion is reported to be present in as few as 0% of patients and as many as 76% with blunt chest trauma depending on the criteria used for establishing the diagnosis. …
Metadata
Title
Diagnosis: heart contusion?
Authors
R Šplechtna
L Pokorný
E Hušková
D Nalos
P Obruba
Publication date
01-03-2001
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2001
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc1243

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