Acute Mitral Regurgitation after Blunt Chest Trauma: A Case Report
Published: 2020-04-14
Page: 102-106
Issue: 2020 - Volume 3 [Issue 1]
Luan Nguyen Thanh *
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Centre of Cho Ray Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Trung Tran Minh
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Centre of Cho Ray Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Tien Tran Quyet
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Centre of Cho Ray Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The most common cardiac injury following trauma is myocardial contusions. Traumatic valve injury is a rare clinical condition and most commonly involves the aortic valve, with isolated mitral valve injury being scarce. We herein describe the clinical, para clinical and surgical characteristics of a 27-year-old male patient who suffered from an acute mitral valve regurgitation after blunt chest trauma during a traffic accident with an oriented review of the literature. The patient was successfully treated by urgent mitral valve replacement and postoperative V-A mode extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ECMO support that turned out necessary in the postoperative period.
Keywords: Chest trauma, acute heart failure, acute mitral valve regurgitation, papillary muscle rupture, echocardiography, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.