Transcatheter closures of a postinfarction ventricular septal defect and late ventricular pseudoaneurysm

J Invasive Cardiol. 2010 Jul;22(7):E132-7.

Abstract

An 83-year-old woman with a history of coronary artery disease presented with anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction. During coronary intervention, she was found to have a ventricular septal rupture, but was felt not to be a surgical candidate due to advanced shock. She was offered transcatheter repair using an Amplatzer post-infarction muscular ventricular septal defect occluder and recovered completely. She was discharged, but returned four months later with chest pain. A cardiac CT and contrast-enhanced echocardiogram revealed a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm. She underwent transcatheter repair using an Amplatzer Vascular Plug II and recovered without further sequelae.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Aneurysm, False / diagnostic imaging
  • Aneurysm, False / therapy*
  • Cardiac Catheterization / instrumentation
  • Cardiac Catheterization / methods*
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Female
  • Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / etiology*
  • Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / therapy*
  • Heart Ventricles* / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Myocardial Infarction / complications*
  • Septal Occluder Device
  • Treatment Outcome