Penetrating left ventricular injuries management: single General Thoracic Center experience.
Alessio CampisiAngelo Paolo CiarrocchiGiorgio GraniDesideria ArgnaniMaurizio SalviFranco StellaPublished in: General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (2021)
According to our experience, in patients with hemodynamic shock and penetrating cardiac injury, a timely recognition of injuries and referral to the closest thoracic surgery unit may increase patient survival if it is located closer than a level I trauma center.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- thoracic surgery
- heart failure
- acute myocardial infarction
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- primary care
- spinal cord
- case report
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- aortic stenosis
- trauma patients
- free survival
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- ejection fraction
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- aortic valve