Related Experiment Videos
Long-term survival of a patient with left ventricular free wall rupture without surgical repair
T P Mathew1, P W Johnston, M M Khan
1Regional Medical Cardiology Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Clinical Cardiology
|March 20, 1999
Abstract:
This report describes the case of a patient who developed postinfarction left ventricular free wall rupture and cardiac tamponade. He was managed conservatively, made a successful recovery, and is alive and asymptomatic 10 months after the index episode. Only 17 cases in which the patients survived subacute rupture of the ventricular free wall over the long term without surgical repair have been reported in the literature.