Rupture of the liver secondary to external cardiac massage in a patient with coronary disease : recovery after partial hepatectomy and aortocoronary by-pass
Dumoulin, P.; Hannoun, L.; Menu, P.; Rozensztajn, L.; Offenstadt, G.; Parc, R.; Loygue, J.; Valty, J.
Annales de Medecine Interne 132(4): 261-264
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-410X PMID: 6975593 Document Number: 180038
A 55-year-old man developed ventricular fibrillation during an attack of acute Prinzmetal-type angina, and was treated by external cardiac massage and a defibrillator. Hemorrhagic shock due to laceration of the left side of the liver developed 48 hours later. A liver lobectomy was performed. The postoperative course was uneventful enabling a coronarography examination to be followed by an aortocoronary by-pass, good results being still present after one year. Complications of cardiac massage, especially those involving the liver, are discussed, as well as the treatment of traumatic liver lesions.