TY - JOUR PY - 1992// TI - Cardiac rupture from blunt trauma with atrial septal defect JO - Archives of surgery (1960) A1 - Baumgartel, E. D. SP - 347 EP - 348 VL - 127 IS - 3 N2 - A review of the literature disclosed 63 survivors of cardiac chamber rupture from blunt trauma, with no mention of associated atrial septal defect. I treated a 17-year-old girl and a 33-year-old man who survived cardiac rupture from motor vehicle accidents, both of whom were discovered postoperatively on echocardiography to have atrial septal defects.

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