Citation

Da Col U, Di Lazzaro D, Di Manici G, Affronti A, Bardelli G, Di Bella I, Ragni T. J. Card. Surg. 2007; 22(3): 221-223.

Affiliation

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital Santa Maria della Misericordia, Perugia, Italy.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00391.x

PMID

17488420

Abstract

A frequent reason of admission to the emergency room is blunt chest trauma following car accidents. Chest injuries may cause a wide range of cardiac lesions, extending from myocardial contusion, to heart or great vessels rupture, to valvular lesions. We present a case of aortic valve rupture after blunt chest trauma.

Language: en