[Repair of Cardiac and Pulmonary Damage caused by Stabbing with a Kitchen Knife;Report of a Case].
A 51-year-old woman was stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife. Twenty minutes after arrival at our hospital by ambulance, she was transferred to the operating room, and a cardiopulmonary bypass was established from the right femoral artery and vein, and a median sternotomy was performed. The knife had damaged the surface of the heart and penetrated the lingular segment of the left lung. Both wounds were directly sutured. Chest X-rays taken after closing the chest showed bleeding in the left lung probably because of the administration of heparin. Bleeding was controlled by lingulectomy. The postoperative course was uneventful.
Department of Cardiovascsurgery, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Tomohiro
T
Odate
Kouji
K
Hashizume
Naoya
N
Yamasaki
Takuro
T
Miyazaki
Tsuneo
T
Ariyoshi
Youichi
Y
Hisata
Kazuyoshi
K
Tanigawa
Takashi
T
Miura
Shun
S
Nagaji
Yuichi
Y
Tasaki
Kiyoyuki
K
Eishi
D005260:Female; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000601:surgery*; D055370:Lung Injury / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed