Repair of traumatic rupture of the aortic valve
C. D. Haskins, N. Shapira, E. Rahman, A. J. Serra, K. W. McNicholas and G. M. Lemole
Department of Surgery, Medical Center of Delaware, Wilmington.
Traumatic aortic valve rupture is a rare complication of nonpenetrating
cardiac injury and can be caused by a tear or avulsion of the valve. The
most common method of treatment has been valve replacement, although valve
repair has been successful in a few cases of cusp tear or detachment. We
report a case of aortic valve commissural avulsion in which a reparative
technique was applied and the natural valve was preserved.
