“…costae and sternum fractures). [5,10] This type of injury has a wide range of clinical expression, from no clinical finding to serious life-threatening findings like arrhythmia, conduction anomalies, congestive heart failure, cardiogenic shock, hemo-pericardium, pericardial tamponade, valvular rupture, intraventricular thrombus, thromboemboli, air emboli, coronary artery occlusion, ventricular aneurysm, and constructive pericarditis. [12,13] Blunt thoracic traumas causing cardiac rupture have a high mortality rate.…”