Double-patch sandwich repair for left ventricular free wall rupture
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A Hydrogel Construct and Fibrin-based Glue Approach to Deliver Therapeutics in a Murine Myocardial Infarction Model.
Published on: June 14, 2015
Yoshitaka Yamamoto1, Teruaki Ushijima, Munehisa Takata
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan. yamamoto@tokyo-med.ac.jp
Abstract:
We present a case of a patient with left ventricular free wall rupture who successfully underwent emergency surgical repair using the double-patch sandwich technique. This technique has already been used for the treatment of left ventricular aneurysm and retains the proper shape and size of the left ventricle. Multislice computed tomography was fast and non-invasive in the detection of a ventricular rupture.

