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Blunt injuries to the kidney from helmets, shoulder pads, and knees are described in football, [1] and in soccer, martial arts, [2] and all-terrain vehicle crashes. A literature review of peer-reviewed articles in May 2009 demonstrated that urogenital injuries are uncommon in team and individual sports, and that most of them are low-grade injuries, cycling being the most commonly associated ...
Abdominal CT showing left renal artery injury. Blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) represents 75% of all blunt trauma and is the most common example of this injury. [3] Seventy-five percent of BAT occurs in motor vehicle crashes, [4] in which rapid deceleration may propel the driver into the steering wheel, dashboard, or seatbelt, [5] causing contusions in less serious cases, or rupture of internal ...
A crush injury is injury by an object that causes compression of the body. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This form of injury is rare in normal civilian practice, but common following a natural disaster . [ 3 ] Other causes include industrial accidents, road traffic collisions, building collapse, accidents involving heavy plant, disaster relief or terrorist ...
The kidney is the most frequently injured. [1] Injuries to the kidney commonly occur after automobile or sports-related accidents. [1] A blunt force is involved in 80-85% of injuries. Major decelerations can result in vascular injuries near the kidney's hilum. Gunshots and knife wounds and fractured ribs can result in penetrating injuries to ...
The progressive acute kidney failure is because of acute tubular necrosis. The syndrome was later described by British physician Eric Bywaters in patients during the 1941 wartime bombing of London . [5] [6] It is a reperfusion injury that appears after the release of the crushing pressure
Rhabdomyolysis complicated by acute kidney impairment in patients with traumatic injury may have a mortality rate of 20%. [4] Admission to the intensive care unit is associated with a mortality of 22% in the absence of acute kidney injury, and 59% if kidney impairment occurs. [ 10 ]
An autopsy conducted on his father Edward Goedde, later showed that he had been stabbed "approximately 50" times and suffered "broken bones, strangulation, and blunt force trauma to head, face and ...
Retroperitoneal bleeds are most often caused by major trauma, such as from a traffic collisions or a fall. [3] Less common non-traumatic causes including: anticoagulation. [3] [4] [5]