Surgical repair of acute postinfarction cardiac rupture.
Acute myocardial infarction is complicated by cardiac rupture in 4% to 24% of all infarction deaths, and approximately 10% of hospital infarction deaths. There are no reliable indices to determine which patients run an increased risk of cardiac rupture. This report describes the surgical treatment and outcome of a patient who sustained a rupture of the left ventricular free wall, nine days after extensive anterior myocardial infarction.
D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology