Severe cardiac complication secondary to blunt chest trauma
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interventricular septal defect, blunt chest trauma, intraoperative echocardiography.Abstract
We present a rare and severe complication following blunt chest trauma.
A 42 year-old patient was transferred to our medical center after suffering a motorcycle crash accident with several trauma injuries. During the hospitalization he presented worsening clinical and hemodynamic conditions. After performing both transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography we confirmed a large interventricular septal defect plus severe mitral and tricuspid valves regurgitation. Corrective surgery of the defect and tricuspid valvuloplasty was made with ominous result.
We highlight the importance of the echocardiography in the urgent setting of patients who have suffered of a blunt chest trauma.
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