title: New type of left ventricular rupture during redo mitral valve replacement. A case report.
abstract: We report the case of a 41 years old woman who presented with massive bleeding after redo mitral valve replacement.  A Left ventricular rupture, different from the three known types of wall rupture was hardly identified and controlled with extreme difficulty. The patient died eight days postoperatively due to disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. Retrospective analysis of the Echocardiographic examination was highly suggestive of abnormal position of the previously implanted mitral valve bioprosthesis with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and weakness of the posterior wall of the left ventricular outflow tract.
authors: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases.
authors: S I
authors: SI
authors: Sersar
authors: A M
authors: AM
authors: Bassiouni
authors: A A
authors: AA
authors: Jamjoom
keywords: cardiac surgery; mitral surgery; ventricular rupture