Open AccessLong‐Term survival of a patient with left ventricular free wall rupture without surgical repair
Author(s) -
Mathew T.P.,
Johnston P.W.,
Khan M.M.,
Adgey Frcp A.A.J.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.4960220317
Subject(s) - medicine , northern ireland , general hospital , university hospital , general surgery , surgery , history , ethnology
This report describes the case of a patient who developed postinfarction left ventricular free wall rupture and cardiac tamponade. He was managed conservatively, made a successful recovery, and is alive and asymptomatic 10 months after the index episode. Only 17 cases in which the patients survived subacute rupture of the ventricular free wall over the long term without surgical repair have been reported in the literature.