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Myocardial Infarction and Functional Outcome Assessment in Pigs
Published on: April 25, 2014
Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm causing myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular accident
Dolores R Hoey1, Joel Kravitz, Paul B Vanderbeek
1Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA.
Abstract:
Although post-infarction mortality is most often due to ventricular dysrhythmias, the non-dysrhythmic causes of post-myocardial infarction death present a potential dilemma to the clinician. Non-dysrhythmic hemodynamic complications include cardiogenic shock, left ventricular free wall rupture, rupture of the interventricular septum, papillary muscle rupture, left ventricular pseudoaneurysm, and acute stroke. We present a rare case of a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm presenting with altered mental status, ultimately suspected to have caused the thromboembolic complications of acute myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular accident.
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