Citation

Veeragandham RS, Backer CL, Mavroudis C, Wilson AD. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 1998; 66(1): 247-248.

Affiliation

Division of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9692475

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.

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