title: Transesophageal echocardiographic diagnosis of cardiac rupture.
abstract: Cardiac rupture is a difficult pre-mortem diagnosis to make and is equally difficult to manage. Transesophageal echocardiography may be useful in expediting the diagnosis and in the management of cardiac rupture related to myocardial infarction.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Albany Medical College, NY 12208.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Fein
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vargas
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D004947:Esophagus; D005260:Female; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans