title: Contained cardiac rupture: an autopsy case.
abstract: Rupture of the myocardium due to myocardial infarction is often fatal but when such patients survive, they present with a pseudoaneurysm where the defect is sealed by the pericardium preventing the complete rupture. This is described as a 'contained myocardial rupture'. We describe here a case of left ventricular contained myocardial rupture following an acute myocardial infarction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, T.N. Medical College and B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai Central, Mumbai, India. drheena81@gmail.com
authors.forename: Heena M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Desai
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, T.N. Medical College and B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai Central, Mumbai, India.
authors.forename: Gayathri P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Amonkar
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged