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Postinfarction acute aortic valve regurgitation and cardiac rupture
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, England.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 9, 2000
Abstract:
We report the case of a 71-year-old man who developed acute aortic regurgitation after a myocardial infarct. At operation he was also found to have a contained cardiac rupture.