Echocardiographic capture of right ventricular wall rupture during inferior wall acute myocardial infarction.
We present the case of a 57-year-old woman with no previous cardiovascular history in whom fatal right ventricular wall rupture was diagnosed by bedside echocardiography early in the management of an inferior wall acute myocardial infarction.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. bmaron@partners.org
Bradley A
BA
Maron
Kumaran
K
Kolandaivelu
David K
DK
Rhee
Alice K
AK
Bukhman
Elazer R
ER
Edelman
D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018658:Ventricular Septal Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*