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Surviving resuscitation: successful repair of cardiac rupture
C Y Bitkover1, F al-Khalili, A Ribeiro
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 1, 1996
Abstract:
An 83-year-old man was found unconscious and was successfully resuscitated. Progressive cardiac failure developed. After 42 hours of observation echocardiography revealed cardiac tamponade and a discontinuity in the left atrial wall. Exploration showed a laceration of the left atrium at the junction of the left pulmonary veins, which was closed with a direct suture on cardiopulmonary bypass. The postoperative course was uneventful.