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Aortic Valve Rupture During Isometric Muscle Contraction
Author(s) -
M. Payne Darrin,
Richards Tammy,
Hamilton Andrew
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.12519
Subject(s) - medicine , isometric exercise , blunt , contraction (grammar) , cardiology , aortic valve , aortic valve replacement , anatomy , surgery , stenosis
Aortic valve rupture has been previously reported in association with blunt chest trauma as well as spontaneously in the setting of abnormal valves. We present a case of a patient who required emergent aortic valve replacement following rupture of his aortic valve during an isometric muscle contraction. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12519 (J Card Surg 2015;30:431–432)