Lung Contusion Pathophysiology and Management Review

Abdolrahimzadeh Fard, H; Boland Parvaz, Sh; Abassi, HR; Ziaeian, B; Paydar, Sh

Lung Contusion Pathophysiology and Management Review

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

H Abdolrahimzadeh Fard ¹

Sh Boland Parvaz ²

HR Abassi ²

B Ziaeian ³

Sh Paydar ⁴

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of General Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Rajaee Hospital, Trauma Research Center

² Professor, Department of General Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Rajaee Hospital, Trauma Research Center

³ Associate Professor, Department of General Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Rajaee Hospital, Trauma Research Center

⁴ Associate Professor of General Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Shahid Rajaie Hospital, Trauma Research Center, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract

Lung contusion is an entity involving injury to the alveolar capillaries, without any tear or cut in the lung tissue. Blunt chest trauma and related complication is associated with 25% mortality. Lung contusion is one of the most dangerous complications of blunt chest trauma and occurs in 25-75% of all blunt chest traumas. PubMed, Elsevier and Medline search with two keywords, lung contusion and chest trauma, was done till 2016 for the most important questions. Despite of decrease in the prevalence of lung contusion, the mortality and morbidity of this entity have not been improved during the last decades, due to misunderstanding of pathophysiology.

Keywords

Lung Contusion

Chest Trauma

Pathophysiology

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