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[Left ventricular free wall rupture during dobutamine stress echocardiography]
José Zamorano1, Raúl Moreno, Carlos Almería
1Laboratorio de Ecocardiografía, Hospital Universitario Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. jlzamorano@jet.es
Revista Espanola De Cardiologia
|March 15, 2002
Abstract:
Dobutamine stress echocardiography is associated with a very low rate of serious complications, lower than 0.5% (death, infarction or sustained ventricular tachycardia). We report the case of a 75 year-old female patient that suffered a fatal left ventricular free wall rupture during a dobutamine stress echocardiography after acute myocardial infarction.