• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.95-97
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• 2008

허혈성 좌심실벽 파열은 심근경색 후에 발생하는 치명적인 합병증 중의 하나인 심장파열의 한 유형으로 빠른 진단과 수술이 필요하다. 환자는 내원 15분 전 갑작스런 의식소실을 주소로 내원한 75세 여자로 당시 의식은 반 혼수상태로 얼굴과 상하지에 청색증 소견을 보였으며 응급실에서 시행한 심초음파 검사상 심낭에 약 $1.5{\sim}2\;cm$ 두께로 삼출소견이 관찰되었으며 심장박동 수가 35회/분까지 떨어져 심장마사지 시행하면서 응급수술을 시행하였다 우심실 전벽에 1 cm정도의 파열과 좌심실 벽에 괴사성 출혈반흔을 동반한 파열부위를 확인하고 체외순환 없이 사친스키 겸자를 이용해 출혈부위를 잡은 뒤 봉합하였다. 환자는 수술 후 28일째 약간의 호흡곤란은 있으나 일상생활 가능한 상태로 퇴원하였다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.929-935
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• 1990

Violence in our society, combined with improving transport system, resulted in increased numbers of patients with cardiac wounds reaching the hospital alive. Most patients with penetrating cardiac injury, rather than blunt injury, present with a syndrome of either hemorrhagic shock or cardiac tamponade. And they should be operated upon as soon as possible. Often the atrioventricular valves and other important cardiac structures are also damaged by the penetrating instruments or missile. Both intracardiac communications and atrioventricular fistulas may result in significant left-to-right shunts accompanied by congestive heart failure, necessitating surgical correction. Usually, retained cardiac foreign bodies, which are almost always bullets or fragments of missiles, may lie within a cardiac chamber or in the myocardium. Emboli of bullets or other missiles from distant sites to the right side of the heart are numerous enough to require attention. Recently we experienced a case with intracardiac foreign body due to penetrating cardiac injury. A 19 year-old man was admitted to our hospital due to penetrating anterior chest wound by iron segment. The roentgenogram of the chest revealed a radio-opaque metallic shadow in left lower chest around the cardiac apex, mild blunting of left costophrenic space, but no cardiomegaly. During operation the foreign body was noted to be present in the cardiac chamber by the portable C-arm fluoroscopy. But during the manipulation it moved into left inferior pulmonary vein from left ventricle by way of left atrium. So we could manage to remove it from left inferior pulmonary vein by direct approach to the vein. It was iron segment, sized 0.lcm x0.6cmx0.5cm, with sharp margins. The patient had an uneventful postoperative recovery except for chylopericardium and was discharged.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제40권8호
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• pp.574-577
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• 2007

심낭에서 발생한 원발성 섬유육종은 매우 드문 질환으로 주로 급격한 혈성 심낭 삼출을 유발한다. 평소에 간헐적인 흉부압박감을 느껴왔던 30세 남자 환자가 내원 하루 전 갑작스런 흉통과 심한 호흡곤란으로 근처 병원에서 협심증 진단 하에 전원되어 심초음파 검사, 흉부 전산화 단층촬영 및 자기공명검사 등 정밀검사를 시행받았고, 그 결과 심낭 기형종 파열에 의한 심낭압전의 진단하에 수술을 받았다. 수술소견 상 혈성 심낭 삼출액이 다량 있었고, 심낭 종괴는 완전 절제하였으나 동결절편검사 상악성종양이 의심되었다. 수술 후 병리조직 검사상 심낭 종괴는 원발성 심낭 섬유육종으로 진단되었고 심낭 삼출액에서 암세포는 발견되지 않았다. 환자는 특별한 합병증 없이 퇴원 후 전원되어 추가적인 방사선치료를 받고 있다. 임상적으로 긴급을 요하는 심낭압전을 동반한 원발성 심낭 섬유육종 1예를 치험하였기에 보고하는 바이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.60-65
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• 1980

We have experienced 2 cases of the hunshot wound sof the chest involving cardiac injuries at department of the thoracic surgery, Capital Armed Forces General Hospital during I year from April I 1979 to Jan. 1980. In one case of two patients , he was a 22 years old man who was transported to this emergency room 4 hour 10 minutes after having gunshot wound of the left chest by helicopter. Physical examination showed small inlet in left 3rd ICS and left parasternal border, large outlet in left 8th ICS and left scapular line, no breath sound on left side and distant heart sound. chest roentgenography demonstrated marked pleural effusion in left side and mediastinum shifted to right. As soon as chest X-ray was taken, the bleeding through penetrating wound became profuse and cardiac arrest ensued. Closed chest cardiac massage was started and vigorous transfusion continued, but no effective cardiac activity could not be obtained. The patient was pronounced dead due to exsanguinating hemorrhage from wuwpected cardiac wounds. In this critically injured patient with evidence of intrathoracic hemorrhage and suspected cardiac penetration, only emergency thoracic exploration and immediate surgical control of bleeding points might offer the maximum possibility of survival. The other case was a 23 years old man who was transferred to the emergency room 4 hours 50 minutes after having kmultiple communicated fractures of sternum and linear fracture of right mandible by a missile. Examination revealed about 30% skin loss of the anterior chest wall, weak pulse of 96 beats/min., distant heart sound and decreased breath sounds bilaterally. finding on the chest X-ray films showed multiple sternal fractures, marked pericardial effusion indicating hemopericardium. So, the patient was moved immediately to the operation room where, after endotracheal tube inserted, a median sternotomy was performced. A hemorrhagic congestion of the right upper lobe and marked bulging pericardium were disclosed. The pericardium was opened anterior to right phrenic nerve and exsanguinating hemorrhage ensued from the 0.5cm lacerated wound in the auricle of right atrium. The rupture site of right atrium was occluded with non-crushing vascular clamps and then was over sewn with interrupted sutures. It was thought to be highly possible that he was alive long enough to have cardiorrhaphy because of cardiac tamponade, which prevented exsanguinating hemorrhage. He was taken closed reduction for linear fracture of right mandible 2 weeks after repair of ruptured right auricle in dental clinic. This patient's post-operative course was not eventful.