General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
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Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · Aug 2018
Case ReportsA case of an elderly man who required repeated repair of a ventricular septal defect and tricuspid rupture after blunt chest trauma.
Several cases of traumatic ventricular septal defect (VSD) have been reported. However, traumatic VSD complicated by tricuspid rupture is rare. We report a case of traumatic VSD with tricuspid rupture who required repeated repair of both conditions. ⋯ The borders of the defect were very fibrotic and strong compared with those in the first operation. Surgical treatment of traumatic VSD should be postponed in hemodynamically stable patients. When emergent repair is performed, careful follow-up is necessary to diagnose new VSD.