Blunt Cardiac Injury in the Severely Injured - A Retrospective Multicentre Study.

Blunt cardiac injury is a rare trauma entity. Here, we sought to evaluate the relevance and prognostic significance of blunt cardiac injury in severely injured patients.In a retrospective multicentre study, using data collected from 47,580 patients enrolled to TraumaRegister DGU (1993-2009), charact...

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Main Authors: Marc Hanschen, Karl-Georg Kanz, Chlodwig Kirchhoff, Philipe N Khalil, Matthias Wierer, Martijn van Griensven, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Peter Biberthaler, Rolf Lefering, Stefan Huber-Wagner, TraumaRegister DGU
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4489656?pdf=render