Acute aortic valve rupture secondary to blunt chest trauma.

J Card Surg

Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212, USA.

Published: July 2010

Cardiac valve injury after blunt chest trauma is rare. We present a case of blunt chest trauma resulting in an isolated aortic valve rupture treated with aortic valve replacement.

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