Solving the impossible: penetrating cardiac injuries, a case series of diagnostic workup and management
Int. j. med. surg. sci. (Print); 8 (3), 2021
For a long time, any heart-based injury was an off-limits area for surgeons; a patient with a traumatic cardiac injury was doomed to die. Little more than one hundred years have passed since the first surgical correction of a penetrating cardiac injury and there is still a high rate of mo...