Treatment of ischaemic heart disease complications.
After myocardial infarction, 20% of all patients suffer from left heart aneurysm, the papillary muscle rupture and ischaemic septal perforation. Symptoms, diagnostic methods and surgical treatment are described. Special attention is paid to aneurysm of the posterior wall which, though relatively rare, presents special therapeutic problems.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006346:Heart Septum; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis