Blunt cardiac rupture in a toddler

Blunt cardiac rupture in a toddler

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Blunt cardiac rupture is typically a fatal injury with overall mortality exceeding 90%.Most of the patients never reach the hospital alive.In pediatric patients, only 0.03% of cases following blunt trauma admissions have HEMAVOL 2 a cardiac injury.This report presents a rare survivor of 16-months old toddler injured in a domestic accident suffering a right atrial rupture repaired through a median sternotomy.

To the Advanced Wound Care - Fillers and Packing best of our knowledge this is the youngest case reported in the literature.