title: Left ventricular free wall rupture after coronary artery surgery.
abstract: A patient who had undergone urgent coronary artery bypass grafting for unstable angina developed a fatal left ventricular free wall rupture in the early postoperative period. Heart rupture following surgical revascularisation has not been reported before.
authors.affiliation: Cardiothoracic Centre, Liverpool, UK.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Berrisford
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Page
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Fabri
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000789:Angina, Unstable / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*