Professional paper

Liver injuries caused by blunt trauma

Željko Bušić
Njegoslav Bušić
Dubravka Bušić
Mijo Radić

Abstract

Twenty-four liver injuries have been treated af our ward during the last 10 years. 95.84% of them were caused by traffic accidents. All the patients were in the conditions of haemorrhagic shock at the moment of coming to the hospital and with 91.67% it were the cases of polytrauma. The sceletal system was most frequently injured aside to liver. 87,50% of cases were men aged 20—30 years. The liver injuries were most frequently of the first and second grade. The high grades of liver injuries were very rare, but they were insurmountable in our experience. Mortality in our material was 29%. The cause of death was the exsanguination in 42.85% of cases, sepsis in 14.28% of cases and multiple trauma in all other cases. The fast compensation of fresh blood, immediate diagnosis and fast and adequate surgical therapy are very essential.

Keywords

blunt trauma; iver injuries

Hrčak ID:

197364

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/197364

Publication date:

1.12.1987.

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