Spontaneous improvement of a haemodynamically significant ventricular septal defect produced by blunt chest trauma in a child
| Autor: | Ricard del Alcazar Muñoz, Pedro Betrián Blasco, Josep Girona Comas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Heart Septal Defects
Ventricular Cardiac Catheterization medicine.medical_specialty Wounds Nonpenetrating Asymptomatic Blunt Internal medicine medicine Humans Diminution Centimeter business.industry Accidents Traffic Hemodynamics General Medicine Exertional dyspnoea Magnetic Resonance Imaging Shunt (medical) Shunting Echocardiography Blunt trauma Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Cardiology Female medicine.symptom Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Cardiology in the Young. 19:109 |
| ISSN: | 1467-1107 1047-9511 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1047951108003223 |
| Popis: | We describe the progress of a girl aged 5 years, who suffered blunt trauma to the chest producing a ventricular septal defect of 1 centimetre in diameter. The shunt generated a mild dilation of the left-sided chambers, and exertional dyspnoea. Three months later, therapeutic catheterisation revealed important diminution in the extent of shunting. We decided, therefore, not to close the defect, and she has since remained asymptomatic. |
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