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Interesting images delayed aortic valve perforation caused by blunt trauma

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2023
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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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Diagnostics 2023, 13 (3), 549
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School of Medicine
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blunt chest trauma, aortic regurgitation, delayed onset, Health sciences
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https://doi.org/10.34961/researchrepository-ul.22802378
 https://researchrepository.ul.ie/handle/10344/11588
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Sustainable Development Goals
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