Cardiac rupture in a blunt trauma of chest: A case report

Abstract

Road traffic accident (RTA) is a major epidemic of non communicable disease in present-day scenario. Many people die, become handicap or bed-ridden for the rest of their lives due to RTA. Death due to RTA is unnatural; so these kinds of cases come for autopsy. Among the cases that are brought to the postmortem room for autopsy, RTA cases form a big part of it. Any part of the body gets injured in RTA, for example - brain, cervical spine, lungs, heart, abdominal viscera or bones. Deaths due to brain injury are very common in RTA but blunt trauma of the heart leading to cardiac rupture is not commonly seen. We report a case of cardiac rupture due to blunt trauma of heart in a road traffic accident.