[Survival after oozing type cardiac rupture associated with subepicardial aneurysm evaluated by echocardiography: a case report]

J Cardiol. 2001 Aug;38(2):87-92.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 64-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with acute myocardial infarction. She underwent emergent percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed mild pericardial effusion on the third day. Pericarditis or cardiac rupture were suspected, so transthoracic echocardiography was repeated serially. On the sixth day, transthoracic echocardiography showed increasing pericardial effusion and abrupt interruption of the apical myocardium of the left ventricle and intact epicardial imaging with systolic expansion. The diagnosis was oozing type cardiac rupture of a subepicardial aneurysm. Surgical treatment was successful and the accuracy of the echocardiographic diagnosis was established.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary
  • Echocardiography
  • Female
  • Heart Aneurysm / complications*
  • Heart Aneurysm / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Aneurysm / surgery
  • Heart Rupture / etiology*
  • Heart Rupture / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Pericardial Effusion / diagnostic imaging
  • Pericardium