title: Postinfarction ventricular septal defect following blunt chest trauma in a 7-year-old child.
abstract: Blunt cardiac injury may result in traumatic ventricular septal defect (VSD) in the pediatric population, but presence of postinfarction VSD with accompanying coronary artery thrombosis has not been reported in the literature thus far. We present a seven-year-old patient who underwent surgery for posttraumatic VSD closure and bypass grafting of thrombotic left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) occlusion following blunt chest trauma. A high index of suspicion and early use of the appropriate imaging studies are essential for diagnosis and surgical treatment of this condition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Tolga
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tatar
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ozkan
authors.forename: Bülent
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Saritaş
authors.forename: Alper
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gürsu
authors.forename: Sait
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aşlamaci
mesh_terms: D056988:Anterior Wall Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D054059:Coronary Occlusion / Q000150:complications; D003328:Coronary Thrombosis / Q000150:complications; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*