| Author/Editor | Amir, Offer; Smith, Ronald; Nishikawa, Akaira; Gregorič, Igor D; Smart, Frank W | |
| Title | Left ventricular free wall rupture in acute myocardial infarction: a case report and literature review | |
| Type | članek | |
| Source | Tex Heart Inst J | |
| Vol. and No. | Letnik 32, št. 3 | |
| Publication year | 2005 | |
| Volume | str. 424-6 | |
| Language | eng | |
| Abstract | We describe a case of subacute left ventricular free wall rupture during acute myocardial infarction in a 68-year-old man. The diagnosis was confirmed by echocardiography. The patient was supported by an intra-aortic balloon pump until the ruptured wall could be successfully repaired by suturing and gluing a pericardial patch over the defect and bypassing the left anterior descending coronary artery with a vein graft. This case demonstrates that left ventricular free wall rupture is not always fatal and that early diagnosis and institution of intra-aortic balloon pump support in such patients can allow successful bridging to definitive emergency surgical therapy. | |
| Descriptors | AGED ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY FOLLOW-UP STUDIES HEART RUPTURE, POST-INFARCTION INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION SUTURE TECHNIQUES TISSUE ADHESIVES |