title: Multimodality cardiac imaging of a ventricular septal rupture post myocardial infarction: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Ventricular septal rupture (VSR), a mechanical complication following an acute myocardial infarction (MI), is thought to result from coagulation necrosis due to lack of collateral reperfusion. Although the gold standard test to confirm left-to-right shunting between ventricular cavities remains invasive ventriculography, two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) with color flow Doppler and cardiac MRI (CMR) are reliable tests for the non-invasive diagnosis of VSR.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 62-year-old Caucasian female presented with a late case of a VSR post inferior MI diagnosed by multimodality cardiac imaging including TTE, CMR and ventriculography.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We review the presentation, diagnosis and management of VSR post MI.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
authors.forename: Surinder
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dhaliwal
authors.forename: Robin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ducas
authors.forename: Liu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shuangbo
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Horne
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Farrukh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hussain
authors.forename: Iain D C
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Kirkpatrick
authors.forename: Davinder S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Jassal
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D018658:Ventricular Septal Rupture / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*