Open AccessPost‐traumatic ventricular septal defect following coronary bypass surgery
Author(s) -
Bortolotti Uberto,
Milano Aldo,
Scioti Giovanni,
Tartarini Giuseppe
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.4960200714
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , myocardial infarction , blunt , unstable angina , artery , angina , revascularization , 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. Approximately 1 month after discharge, a ventricular septal defect was diagnosed by two‐dimensional Doppler echocardiography with patency of all grafts at coronary angiography. 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.