Isolated Ventricular Septal Rupture in a Suicide Jumper

Primero Ng; Dipen Sankhesara; Courtney Weinert; Richard Alcock; David Andrews; Matthew Best; Pragnesh Joshi; Adil Rajwani; Graham Hillis

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.08.013

Isolated Ventricular Septal Rupture in a Suicide Jumper

Primero Ng, Dipen Sankhesara, Courtney Weinert, Richard Alcock, David Andrews, Matthew Best, Pragnesh Joshi, Adil Rajwani, Graham Hillis

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Ventricular septal rupture is an extremely rare sequelae of blunt chest trauma, and is mostly diagnosed postmortem. We present a case of a large isolated traumatic ventricular septal rupture after a suicide attempt by jumping from a height of 5 stories, which was successfully treated with surgical closure. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1531-1534
Number of pages	4
Journal	JACC. Case reports
Volume	3
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.08.013
Publication status	Published - 6 Oct 2021

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