Ventricular septal rupture detected by cross-sectional echocardiography.
Cross-sectional echocardiography was used to directly visualize abnormal wall motion and detect the site of ventricular septal rupture in a patient with acute inferior myocardial infarction. The presence of the defect was confirmed by injecting indocyanine green into the left ventricle at the time of cardiac catheterization. Cross-sectional echocardiography provides a rapid, atraumatic means for evaluating patients with complicated acute myocardial infarction.
D000368:Aged; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004452:Echocardiography; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006346:Heart Septum; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications