Partial tearing of the interventricular septum after blunt chest trauma.

Cardiac trauma after blunt chest trauma is a rare complication of patients arriving alive to an emergency department. We here present the case of patient who had a partial rupture of the interventricular septum after having had a blunt chest trauma in a traffic accident. As there was no ventricular septal defect, conservative management was deemed appropriate.

[Ventricular septal defects in adults: 15 years of surgical experience in a single Colombian cardiovascular center].

Objective: To review the surgical experience with ventricular septal defects in adults in Colombia.

Method: Descriptive, retrospective study of surgically repaired patients between 1995 and 2010. Clinical, echocardiographic, hemodynamic, and surgical findings were related to hospital and outpatient outcomes.