Introduction
Aortic leaflet perforation leading to aortic regurgitation is a known
complication of blunt chest trauma. There are some case
series1-2 and case reports3-12describing such cases. These patients report either immediately or
within weeks of the trauma, with dyspnea and chest pain. They need to be
operated urgently with either aortic valve replacement or repair as
found suitable. Here we describe a patient who was asymptomatic 2 years
after blunt chest trauma and was incidentally detected to have severe
aortic regurgitation (AR) caused by
a tear in the non-adjacent leaflet
(NAL).