title: A broken heart: right ventricular rupture after blunt cardiac injury.
abstract: A 68 year old woman who was a restrained driver was brought to the hospital after sustaining severe motor vehicle accident. She underwent CT of the chest demonstrating pulmonary infiltrates, multiple rib fractures, bilateral hemo- and pneumothoraces. Subsequent review of the images noted contrast extravasating from the apical portion of the right ventricle into the pericardial space, demonstrating a confined rupture of right ventricle. Cardiac rupture is a common complication of a rare event and there are few examples in the imaging literature capturing such event.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI 48202-0143, USA. nabeelwj@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nabeel
authors.forename: Kim Allan
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000175:diagnosis*