Clinical cardiology
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Clinical cardiology · Jul 1997
Case ReportsPost-traumatic ventricular septal defect following coronary bypass surgery.
A 60-year-old patient underwent triple coronary artery bypass grafting following an inferoseptal myocardial infarction and early onset of exertional angina. Four years later he was involved in a car accident during which he sustained an abdominal and thoracic trauma. ⋯ Closure of the septal defect was successfully accomplished through a right atrial approach. Rupture of the ventricular septum following blunt chest trauma in a patient with previous myocardial revascularization has not been previously reported.