Citation

Sheytanov V, Wehbe MS, Doll N, Tzanavaros I. Eur. J. Cardiothorac. Surg. 2019; 55(6): 1234-1235.

Affiliation

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sana Herzchirurgie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1093/ejcts/ezy353

PMID

30351411

Abstract

The spectrum of cardiac injury due to blunt chest trauma may range from cardiac contusions with a clinically silent course to fatal cardiac wall rupture. Pulmonary valve insufficiency due to non-penetrating chest trauma is a rare entity. In this case, pulmonary valve insufficiency as a result of valve tear due to high-velocity blunt chest trauma required surgical replacement.

Language: en