Blunt cardiac rupture in a toddler

Blunt cardiac rupture in a toddler

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Blunt cardiac rupture is typically a fatal injury with overall mortality exceeding R-ALPHA LIPOIC ACID 90%.Most of the patients never reach the hospital alive.In pediatric patients, only 0.03% of cases following blunt trauma admissions have a cardiac injury.

This report presents a rare survivor of 16-months old toddler injured in a domestic accident suffering a right atrial rupture repaired through PEPPER JACK a median sternotomy.To the best of our knowledge this is the youngest case reported in the literature.