Reports two cases of cardiac stab wounds, highlighting the potential for recovery with surgical intervention (cardiorrhaphy).
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Suggests possible benefit of cardiorrhaphy in select stab wounds; leaves open its role and selection criteria pending larger series.
It is with some hesitancy that I report these two cases of stab wound of the heart, with recovery in one after a cardiorrhaphy, as I realize that the operation of suturing the heart muscle in wounds of that organ has been performed many times during the last thirty years, with recovery of the patient in from 50 to 60 per cent of the cases, and that, in the last few years, much valuable work on the surgical treatment of the heart has been published. However, it must be recognized that all has not been learned concerning this condition, for the chance of seeing such cases does not come to every surgeon, and few see more than one, and as each case may present some particular condition not found in the others, there is reason for publishing its history so that a large number of cases may be collected for
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