ABC | Volume 111, Nº3, September 2018

Image Núñez et al Ventricular wound and mammary artery transection Arq Bras Cardiol. 2018; 111(3):434-435 Figure 1 – Panel A: Eleven knife-wounds localized in the left-anterior chest wall. Panel B: Axial computed tomography showed severe pericardial and left pleural effusion (white arrows). Panel C: The clot drained from the pericardial cavity. Panel D: Right ventricular perforation repaired using a monofilament suture (black arrow). Panel E: Complete mammary artery transection bleeding into left pleural cavity (white arrow). 1. Rahim Khan HA, Gilani JA, Pervez MB, Hashmi S, Hasan S. Penetrating cardiac trauma: A retrospective case series from Karachi. J Pak Med Assoc. 2018 Aug;68(8):1285-7. Reference This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 435