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- Title
Ventricular septal defect without tamponade after penetrating trauma.
- Authors
De Schryver, Nicolas; Van Caenegem, Olivier; Navarra, Emiliano; Pierard, Sophie
- Abstract
The article describes a case of ventricular septal defect without tamponade after penetrating trauma in a 46-year-old man who stabbed himself with a knife in the upper abdomen. Thoraco-abdominal computed tomography and transthoracic echocardiography results indicated a small pericardial effusion without other abnormality. A repeat echocardiography performed after the patient developed a heart murmur revealed a basal ventricular septal defect with a significant left-to-right shunt.
- Subjects
ABDOMINAL injuries; PENETRATING wounds; HEART injuries; VENTRICULAR septal defects
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2018, Vol 44, Issue 4, p490
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-017-4997-4