Pevec W C, el-Hillel M, McArdle D Q, Walsh C, Peitzman A B
Westmoreland Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.
Crit Care Med. 1989 Aug;17(8):837-8. doi: 10.1097/00003246-198908000-00023.
We report a survivor of blunt trauma with rupture of the left ventricle and the interventricular septum. A review of the literature revealed no previous report of a survivor of this combination of nonpenetrating injuries, and only four previous survivors of left ventricular rupture due to blunt trauma.