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Blunt injury rupture of tricuspid valve and right coronary artery
T H Trotter1, C J Knott-Craig, K E Ward
1Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City 73190, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|January 6, 1999
Abstract:
Successful surgical repair of an unusual case of blunt trauma to the chest and abdomen is presented. The injury resulted in rupture of the pericardium, avulsion and rupture of the right coronary artery into the right atrium, complete disruption of the tricuspid valve, and acute right heart failure with complete heart block.