title: Self-limiting left ventricular wall rupture following myocardial infarction.
abstract: A left ventricular posterior-inferior free wall rupture without pseudo aneurysm following inferior myocardial infarction was identified in a 40-year-old male patient. Coronary angiography of the patient demonstrated a total occlusion of the circumflex artery. Repair of the rupture was performed during an elective surgery carried out 15 days after the infarction. We approved to discuss this rarely encountered clinical case with the cases in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Education and Research Hospital, Bursa, Turkey. osmantiryaki@gmail.com
authors.forename: Osman
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tiryakioglu
authors.forename: Hasan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ari
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Unal
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ozyazicioglu
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D004452:Echocardiography; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications