@article{ref1,
title="Contusio cordis, not an innocent diagnosis",
journal="BMJ case reports",
year="2014",
author="Driessen, Roel and Doodeman, Inge and Bogaard, Kjell and Reichert, Stan",
volume="2014",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1757-790X",
doi="10.1136/bcr-2014-204139",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2014-204139"
}