title: Rare mechanical complication of myocardial infarction: isolated right ventricle free wall rupture.
abstract: Rupture of the left ventricular free wall is a dramatic complication of acute myocardial infarction (MI) and occurs in about ten percent of patients with fatal acute MI. However, there are limited reports about right ventricular free wall rupture due to MI. In this case report, a patient with isolated right ventricular rupture following MI that was visualised with real-time transthoracic echocardiography is discussed for the first time in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Ankara Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Bilkent Avenue, Ankara 06800, Turkey. drmuratakcay@yahoo.com
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akcay
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Senkaya
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bilge
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yeter
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Misra
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kurt
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Davutoglu
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000150:complications*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000473:pathology