Isolated Ventricular Septal Rupture in a Suicide Jumper

Ventricular septal rupture is an extremely rare sequelae of blunt chest trauma, and is mostly diagnosed postmortem. We present a case of a large isolated traumatic ventricular septal rupture after a suicide attempt by jumping from a height of 5 stories, which was successfully treated with surgical c...

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Autores principales: Ng, Primero, Sankhesara, Dipen, Weinert, Courtney, Alcock, Richard, Andrews, David, Best, Matthew, Joshi, Pragnesh, Rajwani, Adil, Hillis, Graham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8511473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34693354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.08.013
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Sumario:Ventricular septal rupture is an extremely rare sequelae of blunt chest trauma, and is mostly diagnosed postmortem. We present a case of a large isolated traumatic ventricular septal rupture after a suicide attempt by jumping from a height of 5 stories, which was successfully treated with surgical closure. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

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