title: Postinfarction ventricular septal rupture closure without ventriculotomy.
abstract: Postinfarction ventricular septal rupture is a life-threatening complication of acute myocardial infarction. Although some novel techniques of ventricular septal rupture closure have been introduced, they involve ventriculotomy, a procedure that can cause a degree of impairment of the incised ventricle. We describe a case in which we closed a ventricular septal rupture through the tricuspid valve, without ventriculotomy.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Takeda General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan.
authors.forename: Dai
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kawashima
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Takeda General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan.
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maeba
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Takeda General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan.
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Cardiac Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ono
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018658:Ventricular Septal Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D058106:Wound Closure Techniques
keywords: Cardiac surgical procedures; Heart failure; Heart rupture; Heart septal defects; Myocardial infarction; Wound closure techniques; post-infarction; ventricular