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Fatal traumatic heart wounds: review of 160 autopsy cases Fedakar R; Turkmen N; Durak D; Gundogmus UNIsr Med Assoc J 2005[Aug]; 7 (8): 498-501BACKGROUND: Despite many published retrospective analyses on cardiac injuries in treated patients, there is a striking scarcity of population-based studies that include autopsies. OBJECTIVES: To provide data on fatal traumatic heart wounds in autopsied cases. METHODS: We reviewed 2,487 medico-legal autopsy records from the morgue of the Bursa branch of the Turkish Council of Forensic Medicine for the period 1997-2001. RESULTS: Of these cases, 160 (6.4%) had cardiac injury; 13.8% were females and 86.2% males, and the mean age was 35.9 years (range 4-65). The most common cause of heart wounds was penetrating trauma (87.5%), namely sharp injuries (48.1%) and firearm injuries (39.4%). The two most common causes of blunt heart wounds were traffic accidents (5.6%) and falls from a height (5%). Rupture was present in 96.9% of the cases, and isolated left ventricle and isolated right ventricle were ruptured in 31.3% and 23.8%, respectively. In penetrating injury the risk of ventricle rupture was higher than of atrium rupture. Alcohol was detected in 16.3% of cases. Only 3.5% of the penetrating cardiac injury cases and 5% of the blunt cardiac injury cases were admitted to hospital. CONCLUSIONS: Given that only a very low percentage of the patients who sustain cardiac injury reach hospital alive, population-based studies, especially autopsy results, should be conducted to define the characteristics of cardiac injuries.|Adolescent[MESH]|Adult[MESH]|Age Distribution[MESH]|Aged[MESH]|Autopsy[MESH]|Child[MESH]|Child, Preschool[MESH]|Female[MESH]|Heart Injuries/etiology/*mortality[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Incidence[MESH]|Male[MESH]|Middle Aged[MESH]|Retrospective Studies[MESH]|Sex Distribution[MESH]|Turkey/epidemiology[MESH]|Wounds, Nonpenetrating/etiology/*mortality[MESH]|Wounds, Penetrating/etiology/*mortality[MESH] |
