Baumgartel E D
Arch Surg. 1992 Mar;127(3):347-8. doi: 10.1001/archsurg.1992.01420030121023.
A review of the literature disclosed 63 survivors of cardiac chamber rupture from blunt trauma, with no mention of associated atrial septal defect. I treated a 17-year-old girl and a 33-year-old man who survived cardiac rupture from motor vehicle accidents, both of whom were discovered postoperatively on echocardiography to have atrial septal defects.