TY - JOUR AU - Kaul, Pankaj AU - Somsekhar, Ganti AU - Macauley, Graeme PY - 2006 DA - 2006/03/28 TI - Secondary left ventricular injury with haemopericardium caused by a rib fracture after blunt chest trauma JO - Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery SP - 8 VL - 1 IS - 1 AB - Trauma is the third most common cause of death in the West. In the US, approximately 90,000 deaths annually are traumatic in nature and over 75% of casualties from blunt trauma are due to chest injuries. Cardiac injuries from rib fractures following blunt trauma are extremely rare. We report the unusual case of a patient who fell from a height and presented with haemopericardium and haemothorax as a result of left ventricular and lingular lacerations and was sucessfully operated upon. SN - 1749-8090 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-8 DO - 10.1186/1749-8090-1-8 ID - Kaul2006 ER -