title: Ventricular septal rupture after acute myocardial infarction: diagnosis by two-dimensional echocardiography.
abstract: A 69-year-old woman had ventricular septal rupture after acute anterolateral myocardial infarction. The defect was demonstrated directly by two-dimensional echocardiography. The appearance of negative contrast in the right ventricle during systole and microbubbles traversing the defect from right to left during diastole further confirmed the rupture. Two-dimensional echocardiography also accurately characterized the nature and extent of associated myocardial damage.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000209:etiology*; D006346:Heart Septum; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*