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| IMAGES IN CARDIOTHORACIC TRAUMA |
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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 28 |
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Cardiac herniation into left pleural space and huge subcutaneous emphysema
Bruno José da Costa Medeiros
Surgery Institute of Amazonas' State, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
| Date of Web Publication | 20-Dec-2018 |
Correspondence Address:
Bruno José da Costa Medeiros
Surgery Institute of Amazonas' State, Manaus, Amazonas
Brazil
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/jctt.jctt_8_18
How to cite this article:
da Costa Medeiros BJ. Cardiac herniation into left pleural space and huge subcutaneous emphysema. J Cardiothorac Trauma 2018;3:28 |
How to cite this URL:
da Costa Medeiros BJ. Cardiac herniation into left pleural space and huge subcutaneous emphysema. J Cardiothorac Trauma [serial online] 2018 [cited 2023 Jun 3];3:28. Available from: https://www.jctt.org/text.asp?2018/3/1/28/248106 |
A patient male, 45 years of age was brought to our trauma hospital after fall from a light pole (7 m of high), presenting shortness of breath and a huge subcutaneous emphysema. After the first assessment (oxygen supply and analgesia), the patient got better. He was transferred to imaging department; a computed tomography scan was performed. A huge subcutaneous emphysema surrounding the entire chest [Figure 1], a cardiac herniation into left pleural space [Figure 2] and a bilateral pneumothorax and right hemothorax were observed. The patient underwent bilateral blunt chest tube thoracostomy after that was transferred to cardiothoracic unit. He recovered well from the thoracotomy executed by cardiothoracic team. | Figure 1: Huge subcutaneous emphysema surrounding the entire chest, small right hemothorax
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 | Figure 2: Cardiac herniation into left pleural space, red arrow shows the right circumference of pericardial sac, blue arrow shows the heart herniated into pleural space
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