Isolated ventricular septal defect secondary to low-velocity blunt chest trauma.
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.
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Department of Intensive Care, Anaesthesia and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand.
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Mehrota
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Havill
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