title: Subacute left ventricular free wall rupture.
abstract: In a 59-year-old man, Left ventricular free wall rupture following acute myocardial infarction was diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography, left ventriculography and a combination of saline injection into the left ventricle and concomitant transthoracic echocardiography. The Operation was successfully performed with an extracorporeal bypass on the beating heart. Some technical aspects of the treatment are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Skejby Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark. skejjs@au.dk
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sollid
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Søgaard
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Andersen
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D018611:Heart Bypass, Left; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged