title: [Clinically significant contusive heart injury: diagnostic and prognostic rules of screening].
abstract: For many years the definition of blunt cardiac trauma has been unclear and several diagnostic methods have been employed. Recently, the importance of detecting only those patients who have a clinically significant cardiac trauma has been pointed out. Electrocardiography has shown itself to be the most important means in order to exclude the presence of a clinically significant cardiac trauma in a hemodynamically stable patient, determining troponin levels may be helpful at least in some patients.
authors.affiliation: Medicina Interna A Policlinico Giambattista Rossi Piazzale L.A. Scuro, 10 37134 Verona. thalheimer@altavista.net
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Thalheimer
mesh_terms: D003288:Contusions / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003663:Decision Trees; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D011379:Prognosis; D014336:Troponin / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D014336:Troponin