Infarction exclusion technique with transmural sutures for postinfarction ventricular septal rupture.
We present a case of postinfarction ventricular septal rupture (VSR) who underwent successful repair using a modified infarction exclusion technique. In our procedure a heterologous pericardial patch is sutured to healthy endocardium in the free wall and septum all around the infarcted area. Interrupted circular mattress sutures were placed through the ventricular wall in such a way as to exclude the VSR and the infarcted muscle of the left ventricle. We describe herein a novel procedure for repairing postinfarction VSR, by the transmural infarction exclusion technique.
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Tottori Prefectural Central Hospital, Tottori, Japan.
Keisuke
K
Morimoto
Iwao
I
Taniguchi
Shigeto
S
Miyasaka
Tetsuya
T
Aoki
Ippei
I
Kato
Takeshi
T
Yamaga
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D010496:Pericardium / Q000637:transplantation*; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous; D018658:Ventricular Septal Rupture / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*