Ventricular Septal Rupture Complicating Silent Myocardial Infarction

Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J. 2022 Dec 6;18(5):77-80. doi: 10.14797/mdcvj.1168. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

A 55-year-old gentleman presented to the emergency department with shortness of breath for the past 3 days. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging assessed intracardiac shunting and a mechanism of ventricular septal rupture (VSR), showing significant left-to-right shunting and Qp:Qs of 4:1. There was transmural myocardial infarction as well as an aneurysm at the diaphragmatic inferior wall of the left ventricle.

Keywords: intracardiac shunting; myocardial infarction; ventricular septal rupture.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Heart
  • Heart Ventricles
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocardial Infarction* / complications
  • Myocardial Infarction* / diagnostic imaging
  • Ventricular Septal Rupture* / diagnostic imaging
  • Ventricular Septal Rupture* / etiology
  • Ventricular Septal Rupture* / surgery