title: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Intensive Care, Anaesthesia and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand.
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Closey
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mehrota
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Havill