title: New insights in cardiac trauma.
abstract: Recent advances in cardiac surgery associated with newer diagnostic modalities have decreased the mortality from cardiac wounds. With decreasing operative mortality, previous nonoperative approaches have been abandoned while judicious total repair of valvular, septal, and coronary artery injuries at the initial operative procedure seems resonable and justified.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D001804:Blood Transfusion, Autologous; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000601:surgery; D004452:Echocardiography; D004630:Emergencies; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000601:surgery; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000601:surgery; D006351:Heart Valves / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000379:methods; D013667:Technetium; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000601:surgery; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D013667:Technetium