Blunt cardiac rupture in a toddler

Bluntcardiac rupture is typically a fatal injury with overall mortality exceeding 90%. Most of the patients never reach the hospital alive. In pediatric patients, only 0.03% of cases following blunt traumaadmissions have a cardiac injury. This report presents a rare survivor of 16-months old toddlerinjured in a domestic accident suffering a right atrial rupture repaired through a median sternotomy. To the best of our knowledge this is the youngest case reported in the literature.