Echocardiographic Features of Ventricular Septal Rupture with Right Ventricular Aneurysm After Acute Myocardial Infarction.
Postinfarction ventricular septal defect is a life-threatening disorder that may be adequately treated if the diagnosis is obtained promptly. Two-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography is a reliable tool for this diagnosis and gives additional information regarding its location, size, and shape. The authors emphasize the feasibility of this method to depict a particular form of postinfarction interventricular septal rupture, which developed an aneurysm inside the right ventricular cavity. Its characteristics were completely defined by color Doppler echocardiography and confirmed at surgery. (ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, Volume 13, May 1996)
Parro
Adelino
A
Echocardiographic Laboratory, Instituto de Moléstias Cardiovasculares, Rua Castelo D'gua 3030, 15015-210, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
Carlos Da Silveira
Luis
L
Francischetti
Aloísio
A
Antonio De Almeida Gomes
Domingos
D
Antônio
Luís
L
Ardito
Roberto Vito
RV
Nicolau
José Carlos
JC