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A successfully treated case of blunt traumatic right coronary ostium rupture
Satoru Sugimoto1, Akihiko Yamauchi, Kinya Kudoh
1Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Sapporo Municipal Hospital, Sapporo, Japan. satoru-sugimoto@hokkaido.med.or.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|March 21, 2003
Abstract:
Cardiac tamponade due to coronary artery rupture, as a consequence of blunt trauma, is a rare but usually fatal condition. We successfully obtained primary hemostasis with emergency room thoracotomy, followed by delayed definitive treatment of the ruptured right coronary artery ostium in a motor vehicle accident victim with multifocal hemorrhagic lesions. Survival of patients with the described serious trauma has not been reported, and we discuss herein our treatment strategy.