title: [Immediate surgical treatment of penetrating wounds of the heart. Clinico-diagnostic and therapeutic considerations on 2 cases of suture of the myocardium].
abstract: The authors, on the basis of their experience on two cases of cardiac tamponade, and from the revision of literature, retain that immediate thoracotomy, followed by re-examination of the pericardial sac and myocardiorrhaphy, represents a treatment preferable to the evacuant pericardiocentesis, confining the latter only to diagnostic conditions and immediate decompression in cases which arrive in unequipped places.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D005260:Female; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D010496:Pericardium / Q000601:surgery; D013536:Suture Techniques; D013997:Time Factors; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Il trattamento chirurgico immediato nelle ferite penetranti del cuore. Considerazioni clinico-diagnostiche e terapeutiche su due casi di sutura del miocardio.