Citation

Driessen R, Doodeman I, Bogaard K, Reichert S. BMJ Case Rep. 2014; 2014(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Department of Cardiology, Medisch Centrum Alkmaar, Alkmaar, The Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bcr-2014-204139

PMID

24811869

Abstract

This report demonstrates two cases of traumatic valvular lesions of the heart. The first is a patient with severe mitral regurgitation after a blunt chest trauma and the second a severe aortic regurgitation due to rupture of a coronary cusp after a motor cycle accident. Both patients underwent successful surgery and recovered. Valvular lesions are a rare complication after blunt chest trauma. Physicians should always consider a traumatic valvular lesion as a possible cause of pulmonary oedema or haemodynamic instability after a blunt chest trauma.

Language: en