Citation

Tonks R, Perkel D, Wehber A, Rogers B. J. Cardiovasc. Echogr. 2018; 28(3): 191-193.

Affiliation

Department of Cardiology, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Heart Lung Vascular Institute, Knoxville, TN, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health-Medknow)

DOI

10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_23_18

PMID

30306026

PMCID

PMC6172885

Abstract

This case report describes a rare case of ventricular septal defect due to non-penetrating trauma in a 43 year old male involved in a motor vehicle collision. The diagnosis was made by echocardiogram and the patient was taken immediately to the operating room for emergent surgical repair of the ventricular septal defect and survived.

Language: en

Keywords

Blunt chest trauma; blunt cardiac injury; cardiogenic shock; murmur; shunt; ventricular septal defect