Cardiac rupture in post-myocardial infarction syndrome.
A fatal case of post-myocardial infarction syndrome (PMIS) followed by a rupture of an inferior left ventricular aneurysm is described. Attention is drawn to the growing number of reports of aneurysm in PMIS, and the clinico-pathological significance of this association is discussed.
D000368:Aged; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology*; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000209:etiology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology; D013577:Syndrome