TY - JOUR T1 - COntinuous murmur following chest trauma AU - Berger M, Bhalla R, Jelveh M, Goldberg E Y1 - 1979/11/01 N1 - 10.1001/archinte.1979.03630480077023 JO - Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 1305 EP - 1306 VL - 139 IS - 11 N2 - A 25-year-old asymptomatic man was hospitalized for heroin detoxification. Five years previously he had been stabbed in the left side of the chest and during emergency surgery a laceration of the right ventricle near the base of the pulmonary artery was repaired. No murmurs were described at that time.On physical examination the blood pressure was 112/78 mm Hg. At the upper left sternal border there was a grade 3/6 holosystolic murmur and a grade 3/6 decrescendo long diastolic murmur. There were no palpable thrills. Chest roentgenogram, ECG, and M-mode echocardiogram all were normal.A two-dimensional echocardiogram is shown in Fig 1. What is your diagnosis?The two-dimensional echocardiogram (Fig 1) shows an aneurysm of the right sinus of Valsalva. The sagittal or long-axis view illustrated in the left panel shows aneurysmal protrusion of the anterior aortic wall into the right ventricular outflow tract. This abnormality is located just distal SN - 0003-9926 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1979.03630480077023 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1979.03630480077023 ER -