title: Managing a traumatic ventricular septal defect with atrial septal defect occluder device.
abstract: Traumatic ventricular septal defects are rare complications of blunt and penetrating chest trauma. Patients are usually referred because of shock or cardiac tamponade. Focusing on the critical condition of the patient leads to missing the presence of traumatic ventricular septal defects. In this case report, we introduce a patient with a large traumatic ventricular septal defect, which was diagnosed 40 days after a penetrating cardiac trauma and was finally treated with transcatheter closure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Interventional Cardiology, Tehran Heart Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alidoosti
authors.forename: Seyed K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Hoseini
authors.forename: Akbar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shafiee
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055989:Septal Occluder Device; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014951:Wounds, Stab / Q000601:surgery*