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  • Title: Survival after left ventricular rupture following blunt chest injury.
    Author: Weiner Y, Berkenstadt H, Segal E.
    Journal: Am J Emerg Med; 1996 Mar; 14(2):186-8. PubMed ID: 8924145.
    Abstract:
    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.
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