Traumatic Suprahepatic inferior vena cava injury survival of a rare case

Traumatic supra-hepatic inferior vena cava (IVC) injury is rare and nearly universally fatal. We report an excellent outcome from a case involving severe injury of the suprahepatic and intra-pericardial IVC utilizing emergency cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest.The...

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Main Authors: Douglas A. Rooke, Christopher R. Burke, Eileen M. Bulger, Erik Van Eaton, Koichiro Nandate
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-12-01
Series:Trauma Case Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352644021001400