Postoperative rupture of the right ventricular free wall with transthoracic leak: multidetector CT findings.
Right ventricular free-wall rupture may complicate sternal-splitting operations but may be clinically occult. Awareness of this entity and the CT imaging features may help avert a potentially catastrophic outcome.
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Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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D013504:Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013249:Sternum / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed