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Traumatic ventricular septal defect resulting from a motor vehicle collision

Author(s) -

Robert Tonks,

David Perkel,

Aimee Wehber,

Bret Rogers

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of cardiovascular echography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.255

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 2347-193X

pISSN - 2211-4122

DOI - 10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_23_18

Subject(s) - medicine , motor vehicle crash , vehicle accident , collision , cardiology , surgery , medical emergency , poison control , injury prevention , computer security , computer science

This case report describes a rare case of ventricular septal defect due to non-penetrating trauma in a 43 year old male involved in a motor vehicle collision. The diagnosis was made by echocardiogram and the patient was taken immediately to the operating room for emergent surgical repair of the ventricular septal defect and survived.

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