WARTIME HEART CONTUSION
787 victims with severe closed chest injury had been on the treatment at the surgery clinic named after K.T. Ovnatanyan for the period of 2013 - July 2019, 83 (10,5%) of them had had the signs of a contusion of the heart. The pathoanatomical substrate of this pathology is described, the pathogenesis of the possible clinical disorders is presented. The reasons and difficulties of unsatisfactory intravital diagnosis of the heart contusion are described, the degree of reliability of the results of various instrumental methods of studying patients with suspection of this pathology is examined. At the same time possible complications of the process are indicated, as well as features of the treatment tactics depending on the severity of the clinical course. In this group 23 (27,7) patients of 83 ones died, because of severe injuries of the chest organs. According to the data of autopsies, at 20 dead the death can be directly related to the concussion of the heart, due to severe closed chest injury. 62 patients recovered