Isolated Ventricular Septal Defect Secondary to Low-Velocity Blunt Chest Trauma
ABSTRACT
Damage to the ventricular septum resulting from low velocity blunt trauma to the anterior chest wall is a rarely reported disorder. We wish to report a case of an isolated large ventricular septal defect secondary to blunt chest trauma requiring urgent surgical repair in an otherwise healthy 19 year old male. The patient endured a long hospital stay complicated by repeated episodes of pulmonary oedema and ARDS but eventually made a good recovery. (Critical Care and Resuscitation 2001; 3: 95-96)
Key words:
Ventricular septal defect, blunt chest trauma, transoesophageal echocardiography
