Fatal huge left free wall ventricular rupture after acute posterior myocardial infarction.
Francesco FormicaSilvia MarianiOrazio FerroGiovanni PaoliniPublished in: Case reports in cardiology (2013)
A 77-year-old man, with a recent history of an acute inferior myocardial infarction, was referred to our hospital with echocardiographic and clinical signs of left ventricular free wall rupture (LVFWR). The intraoperative finding demonstrated a huge double LVFWR. The inferoposterior wall was dramatically destroyed without any possibility to repair.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- heart failure
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- left atrial
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- acute myocardial infarction
- mitral valve
- aortic stenosis
- liver failure
- healthcare
- respiratory failure
- emergency department
- patients undergoing
- pulmonary hypertension
- hepatitis b virus
- atrial fibrillation
- coronary artery disease
- mechanical ventilation
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- intensive care unit
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation