title: [Diagnosis and treatment heart and pericardium wounds].
abstract: The experience of diagnosis and treatment of heart and pericardium wounds in 152 patients are presented. In obecure diagnosis the authors prefer X-ray examination and echocardiography. Total lethality was 23.6%. Its high level is due to injury of coronary arteries and intracardiac structures, other thoracic and abdominal organs. The left anterolaferal thoracotomy is the optimum approach in wounds of the heart and pericardium. The most frequent complication of postoperative period is pericarditis, its echographic symptoms were revealed in 91% examinys. Non-steroid and steroid antiinflammatory drugs are effective for prophylaxis and treatment of pericarditis.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Ermolov
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Abakumov
authors.forename: Iu A
authors.initials: IuA
authors.lastname: Radchenko
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D010496:Pericardium / Q000293:injuries*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D015996:Survival Rate; D013908:Thoracotomy / Q000379:methods; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Diagnostika i lechenie raneniĭ serdtsa i perikarda.