Ventricular free wall and septal rupture (double rupture): a "pseudocomplication" during post-infarction laser angioplasty.
We report the rare occurrence of double rupture of the myocardium occurring immediately following successful laser recanalization of an occluded right coronary artery in a 72-year-old woman 5 days following infero-posterior myocardial infarction.
Reiner
J S
JS
Division of Cardiology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20037.
Lundergan
C F
CF
Tenner
M P
MP
Abraham
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Ross
A M
AM
D000368:Aged; D017222:Angioplasty, Balloon, Laser-Assisted / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006346:Heart Septum; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology