Delayed diagnosis of traumatic ventricular septal perforation in penetrating chest injury: hematoma formation in the ventricular septum in CT suggests perforation

BACKGROUND: Ventricular septal perforation (VSP) can be caused by a penetrating cardiac injury. Diagnosis of VSP tends to be delayed because a shunt might not be detected by color flow Doppler at an early stage following injury. CASE PRESENTATION: A 60‐year‐old man with depression was admitted to th...

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Published in:Acute Med Surg
Main Authors: Shioya, Nobuki, Inoue, Nozomu, Muto, Harutatsu, Tomita, Akiko, Tsukamoto, Yuki, Kawashima, Naonori, Hazama, Koji, Shichinohe, Yasuo
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Case Reports
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6603320/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31304038
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ams2.419
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