Live three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiographic delineation of ventricular septal rupture following myocardial infarction.
We present an elderly patient with ventricular septal rupture following myocardial infarction in whom live three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography allowed comprehensive noninvasive assessment of the location, shape, and size of the septal defect, which could be clearly visualized en face from both left and right ventricular aspects.
Vengala
Srinivas
S
Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35249, USA.
Nanda
Navin C
NC
Mehmood
Farhat
F
Dod
Harvinder S
HS
Khanna
Deepak
D
Sinha
Ashish
A
McGiffin
David C
DC
D000368:Aged; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D018658:Ventricular Septal Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*