Open AccessThe Place of Conservative Treatment for Right Ventricular Free Wall Rupture after Acute Myocardial Infarction
Author(s) -
Mina Boutgourine Marwan El Qady,
Ahmed Salah Tandia,
Mohammed El Jamili,
Saloua El Karimi,
Mustapha El Hattaoui
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
scholars journal of medical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2347-9507
pISSN - 2347-6559
DOI - 10.36347/sjmcr.2022.v10i04.022
Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , cardiac rupture , cardiology , complication , heart rupture , conservative treatment , incidence (geometry) , mortality rate , electrocardiography in myocardial infarction , hemodynamics , surgery , physics , optics
Cardiac rupture is a rare but fatal complication of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), often with devastating hemodynamic consequences. Although the incidence has been reduced with the practice of reperfusion therapy, it still carries a high mortality rate of over 50%. Isolated right ventricular free wall rupture (RVFWR) is a rare entity with very few previously reported cases, and survival after RVFWR due to ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated with a conservative therapeutic strategy is extremely rare. Here, we presented two cases of RVFWR secondary to AMI, treated conservatively and survived.