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Traumatic left ventricular aneurysm and tricuspid insufficiency in a child
R S Veeragandham1, C L Backer, C Mavroudis
1Division of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|August 6, 1998
Abstract:
We describe a rare combination of left ventricular aneurysm and severe tricuspid valve insufficiency in a 9-year-old boy who sustained blunt chest trauma in a motor vehicle accident. The child underwent successful aneurysmorrhaphy and tricuspid valve replacement 9 months after the accident.