Open AccessPOST-INFARCTION CARDIAC RUPTURE
Author(s) -
E. Yu. Kovalchuk,
Е Ю Ковальчук,
А В Рысев,
А В Рысев
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
vestnik severo-zapadnogo gosudarstvennogo medicinskogo universiteta im. i.i. mečnikova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2618-9704
pISSN - 2618-7116
DOI - 10.17816/mechnikov20157397-101
Subject(s) - myocardial infarction , cardiogenic shock , medicine , cardiology , confusion , shock (circulatory) , mortality rate , cardiac rupture , psychology , psychoanalysis
The field of post-infarction myocardial ruptures is still a nearly blind spot of cardiology; there are many facts about it which are ambiguous and simply too vague. For example, the dispersion in frequency rate is quite self-explanatory: from 0 to 30 or even 35 per cent. A number of clinical studies concerning the 30 days mortality due to acute myocardial infarctions just ignores myocardial ruptures as being the cause of death. This probably comes from a certain confusion as the post-infarction myocardial ruptures and the cardiogenic shock have almost similar manifestations. However pathologists participating in those not so numerous clinical studies concerning the 30 days mortality due to acute MIs presume that the real frequency rate of myocardial ruptures is much higher and stands at 20 to 36 per cent among all cases.