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
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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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author Ng, Primero
Sankhesara, Dipen
Weinert, Courtney
Alcock, Richard
Andrews, David
Best, Matthew
Joshi, Pragnesh
Rajwani, Adil
Hillis, Graham
author_facet Ng, Primero
Sankhesara, Dipen
Weinert, Courtney
Alcock, Richard
Andrews, David
Best, Matthew
Joshi, Pragnesh
Rajwani, Adil
Hillis, Graham
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description 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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spelling pubmed-85114732021-10-21 Isolated Ventricular Septal Rupture in a Suicide Jumper Ng, Primero Sankhesara, Dipen Weinert, Courtney Alcock, Richard Andrews, David Best, Matthew Joshi, Pragnesh Rajwani, Adil Hillis, Graham JACC Case Rep Case Report 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.) Elsevier 2021-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8511473/ /pubmed/34693354 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.08.013 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Isolated Ventricular Septal Rupture in a Suicide Jumper
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