Fatal huge left free wall ventricular rupture after acute posterior myocardial infarction.
A 77-year-old man, with a recent history of an acute inferior myocardial infarction, was referred to our hospital with echocardiographic and clinical signs of left ventricular free wall rupture (LVFWR). The intraoperative finding demonstrated a huge double LVFWR. The inferoposterior wall was dramatically destroyed without any possibility to repair.
Cardiac Surgery Unit, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy ; Department of Surgery and Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy ; U.O. Cardiochirurgia, A.O. San Gerardo Via Pergolesi 33, 20900 Monza (MB), Italy.
Francesco
0000-0003-3989-6134
F
Formica
Cardiac Surgery Unit, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy ; Department of Surgery and Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.
Silvia
0000-0002-2238-1399
S
Mariani
Cardiac Surgery Unit, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy.
Orazio
O
Ferro
Cardiac Surgery Unit, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy ; Department of Surgery and Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.
Giovanni
G
Paolini