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Cardiology in the young · Feb 2009
Case ReportsSpontaneous improvement of a haemodynamically significant ventricular septal defect produced by blunt chest trauma in a child.
- Pedro Betrián Blasco, Josep Girona Comas, and Ricard del Alcazar Muñoz.
- Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Valle de Hebrón Hospital, Barcelona, Spain. pedrobetrian@yahoo.es
- Cardiol Young. 2009 Feb 1;19(1):109-10.
AbstractWe describe the progress of a girl aged 5 years, who suffered blunt trauma to the chest producing a ventricular septal defect of 1 centimetre in diameter. The shunt generated a mild dilation of the left-sided chambers, and exertional dyspnoea. Three months later, therapeutic catheterisation revealed important diminution in the extent of shunting. We decided, therefore, not to close the defect, and she has since remained asymptomatic.
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