Myocardial infarction and left ventricular free wall rupture in a patient with a prior pericardiectomy

Can J Cardiol. 2008 Jun;24(6):513-5. doi: 10.1016/s0828-282x(08)70628-7.

Abstract

A 59-year-old man with an inferolateral myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock was found to have extensive intrathoracic hemorrhage in communication with the left ventricle. His remote pericardiectomy precluded hemopericardium and tamponade, and permitted the establishment of an unusual diagnosis and subsequent closure of the site of myocardial perforation.

Un homme de 59 ans, victime d’un infarctus du myocarde inférolatéral suivi d’un choc cardiogénique, a présenté une hémorragie intrathoracique profuse à partir du ventricule gauche. Ses antécédents de péricardectomie écartaient la possibilité d’hémopéricarde et de tamponnade et ont permis d’établir ce diagnostic inhabituel et de corriger ensuite la perforation myocardique.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Heart Rupture / diagnosis
  • Heart Rupture / etiology*
  • Heart Rupture / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocardial Infarction / complications*
  • Myocardial Infarction / diagnosis
  • Pericardiectomy / adverse effects*
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Rupture, Spontaneous
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed