Self-limiting left ventricular wall rupture following myocardial infarction

J Card Surg. 2009 Jan-Feb;24(1):89-91. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2008.00707.x. Epub 2008 Sep 5.

Abstract

A left ventricular posterior-inferior free wall rupture without pseudo aneurysm following inferior myocardial infarction was identified in a 40-year-old male patient. Coronary angiography of the patient demonstrated a total occlusion of the circumflex artery. Repair of the rupture was performed during an elective surgery carried out 15 days after the infarction. We approved to discuss this rarely encountered clinical case with the cases in the literature.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures / methods
  • Echocardiography
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / etiology
  • Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / surgery
  • Heart Ventricles*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myocardial Infarction / complications