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Nonpenetrating Traumatic Rupture of the Tricuspid Valve

1987; Elsevier BV; Volume: 91; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1378/chest.91.5.778

1931-3543

William Berkery, Christopher Hare, Robert A. Warner, Joseph Battaglia, James L. Potts,

Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair

A 26-year old man was admitted with blunt trauma to the chest following a high-speed deceleration injury. A two-dimensional Doppler echocardiogram demonstrated traumatic rupture of the tricuspid valve and a hematoma in the basilar portion of the interventricular septum. Serial two-dimensional Doppler echocardiographic analyses demonstrated evolutionary formation of a septal aneurysm and subsequent rupture with formation of a ventricular septal defect. The usefulness of the two-dimensional Doppler echocardiogram as a screening tool for cardiac contusion is discussed. A 26-year old man was admitted with blunt trauma to the chest following a high-speed deceleration injury. A two-dimensional Doppler echocardiogram demonstrated traumatic rupture of the tricuspid valve and a hematoma in the basilar portion of the interventricular septum. Serial two-dimensional Doppler echocardiographic analyses demonstrated evolutionary formation of a septal aneurysm and subsequent rupture with formation of a ventricular septal defect. The usefulness of the two-dimensional Doppler echocardiogram as a screening tool for cardiac contusion is discussed.