title: Acute aortic valve insufficiency following blunt chest trauma.
abstract: Acute aortic valve insufficiency caused by laceration of the aortic valve cusp after blunt chest trauma is a rare condition. We report herein on a case of a 40-year-old patient who initially presented with cardiac tamponade and cardiac arrest after a traffic accident. The patient ultimately received aortic valve repair to treat acute aortic regurgitation due to multiple perforations on a single cusp, visualized on multidetector chest computed tomography scan (128 channels).
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yeungnam University Medical Center, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daemyeong 5-dong, Nam-gu, Daegu, 705-717, South Korea.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Baek
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yeungnam University Medical Center, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daemyeong 5-dong, Nam-gu, Daegu, 705-717, South Korea.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yeungnam University Medical Center, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daemyeong 5-dong, Nam-gu, Daegu, 705-717, South Korea. dhlee@med.yu.ac.kr.
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Lee
keywords: Aortic valve insufficiency; Laceration; Traffic accident
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