title: Surgical treatment of ventricular septal defect secondary to myocardial infarction.
abstract: 13 patients were operated on during 1974-88 for ventricular septal defect secondary to myocardial infarction. 7 infarctions were inferior and 6 anterior. At the time of operation 5 patients were in shock. Besides the correction of ventricular septal defect coronary artery by-pass grafting was performed in 6 patients and left ventricular aneurysmectomy in 3 patients. The operative mortality was 31%. The cause of death was low output syndrome in 3 cases and a new rupture through the left ventricular free wall in one case. Postoperative shunting was detected in 5 patients. During an average follow-up time of 6.3 years (range 0.5-15 years) 3 patients died from a new myocardial infarction. The mean performance levels of the patients still living was NYHA II. Prompt diagnosis of a ventricular septal defect due to myocardial infarction and its immediate surgical treatment is recommended. The results are poor in the presence of primary shock and for inferior infarction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kallela
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Salo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nieminen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Järvinen
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kyösola
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015908:Counterpulsation; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000601:surgery*; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000601:surgery*; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D012086:Reoperation