Isolated Ventricular Septal Rupture in a Suicide Jumper

Primero Ng; Dipen Sankhesara; Courtney Weinert; Richard Alcock; David Andrews; Matthew Best; Pragnesh Joshi; Adil Rajwani; Graham Hillis

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.08.013

Isolated Ventricular Septal Rupture in a Suicide Jumper

JACC Case Rep. 2021 Oct 6;3(13):1531-1534. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.08.013.

Authors

Primero Ng¹, Dipen Sankhesara¹, Courtney Weinert¹, Richard Alcock¹, David Andrews², Matthew Best¹, Pragnesh Joshi^{3

4

5}, Adil Rajwani¹, Graham Hillis^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
² Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Perth's Children Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
⁴ Medical School, University of Notre Dame, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
⁵ Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Abstract

Ventricular septal rupture is an extremely rare sequelae of blunt chest trauma, and is mostly diagnosed postmortem. We present a case of a large isolated traumatic ventricular septal rupture after a suicide attempt by jumping from a height of 5 stories, which was successfully treated with surgical closure. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.).

Keywords: TTE, transthoracic echocardiography; VSR, ventricular septal rupture; cardiac surgery; echocardiography; trauma; ventricular septal rupture.

Publication types

Case Reports