Three-dimensional echocardiography of post-myocardial infarction cardiac rupture.
Ventricular septal defects and pseudoaneurysms are two serious complications of acute myocardial infarction and are associated with a high mortality if not surgically treated. Two-dimensional echocardiography provides excellent diagnostic information in such cases, but three-dimensional echocardiography may provide superior anatomic data of these potentially fatal complications. We describe two cases in which three-dimensional echocardiography provided incremental morphological information.
Puri
Timothy
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Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Liu
Zheng
Z
Doddamani
Sanjay
S
Coon
Patrick D
PD
Entwistle
John W C
JW
Strong
Michael
M
Vannan
Mani
M
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male