Treatment of blind shrapnel wound with injury of the liver, left lung, diaphragm, and heart, complicated by intracardiac thrombosis and material embolism of the left common femoral artery

Abstract

The experience of staged treatment of a wounded man with a thoracoabdominal shrapnel wound, accompanied by the development of complications not typical for combat trauma: intracardiac thrombosis in the location of the interventricular septum shrapnel wound and material embolism of the left common femoral artery with a foreign body (shrapnel) from the left ventricular cavity is presented.