MYOCARDIAL AND PERICARDIAL LESIONS DUE TO NON-PENETRATING INJURY

Abstract

Subacute and chronic affections of the myocardium due to non-penetrating injuries have in the past been regarded as extremely rare. Traumatic rupture of the cardiac valves, papillary muscles, and chordc tendine are described in detail in most textbooks; yet isolated myocardial and pericardial lesions, though undoubtedly more common, are scarcely mentioned except in more recent manuals dealing with diseases due to trauma, such as those by Stern (1930), Brady and Kahn (1937), and Spicer (1939). Papers by Beck (1935) and by Bright and Beck (1935) have dealt especially with such cardiac muscle injuries.