• Arch Cardiol Mex · Oct 2015

    Case Reports

    Partial tearing of the interventricular septum after blunt chest trauma.

    • Nilson López-Ruiz and Lucas Ramírez Gil.
    • Division of Cardiology, Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe, Medellín, Colombia. Electronic address: nlopez@hptu.org.co.
    • Arch Cardiol Mex. 2015 Oct 1; 85 (4): 337-9.

    AbstractCardiac trauma after blunt chest trauma is a rare complication of patients arriving alive to an emergency department. We here present the case of patient who had a partial rupture of the interventricular septum after having had a blunt chest trauma in a traffic accident. As there was no ventricular septal defect, conservative management was deemed appropriate. At 3-year follow-up, the patient was free of right heart failure symptoms suggestive of the septal defect progression. Copyright © 2015 Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez. Published by Masson Doyma México S.A. All rights reserved.

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