Direct visualization of left ventricular free wall rupture by levocardiography.
Two cases of left ventricular free wall rupture and one case of combined left ventricular free wall and ventricular septal rupture are described where ventriculography played a key role in diagnosis. In all three cases of patients with acute myocardial infarction, identification and localization of the defect was made by angiography. This report illustrates the safety and feasibility of ventriculography in patients with suspected cardiac rupture.
Department of Cardiology, Wuppertal Heart Center, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany. krakau@klinikum-wuppertal.de
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Krakau
Harald
H
Lapp
Judith
J
Wolfertz
Hartmut
H
Gülker
D000368:Aged; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000175:diagnosis; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015635:Radionuclide Ventriculography; D018658:Ventricular Septal Rupture / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging