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Self‐Limiting Left Ventricular Wall Rupture Following Myocardial Infarction
Author(s) -
Tiryakioglu Osman,
Ari Hasan,
Unal Mustafa,
Ozyazicioglu Ahmet
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2008.00707.x
Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , circumflex , cardiology , limiting , coronary angiography , electrocardiography in myocardial infarction , heart rupture , occlusion , artery , infarction , aneurysm , surgery , radiology , mechanical engineering , engineering
A left ventricular posterior–inferior free wall rupture without pseudo aneurysm following inferior myocardial infarction was identified in a 40‐year‐old male patient. Coronary angiography of the patient demonstrated a total occlusion of the circumflex artery. Repair of the rupture was performed during an elective surgery carried out 15 days after the infarction. We approved to discuss this rarely encountered clinical case with the cases in the literature.