Delayed Aortic Valve Perforation Caused by Blunt Trauma. 2023

Kazuya Tateishi, and Chantal Y Asselin, and Elie M Elmann, and Joseph De Gregorio
Cardiovascular Services, Englewood Health, Englewood, NJ 07631, USA.

Traumatic aortic regurgitation (AR) is a rare complication of blunt chest trauma. We described the case of a 35-year-old male who presented to our hospital with shortness of breath 7 years after sustaining blunt chest trauma associated with a motorcycle accident. Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiogram detected severe AR with two separate jets. The patient was diagnosed with congestive heart failure due to severe AR, and surgical aortic valve replacement was performed. A large perforation of the right coronary cusp likely sustained during the initial blunt chest trauma injury was confirmed surgically. As AR caused by blunt chest trauma can gradually worsen, it is necessary to confirm if there is a history of trauma in patients with severe AR of unknown origin.

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