TachoSil for postinfarction ventricular free wall rupture
Marco Pocar1, Davide Passolunghi, Alda Bregasi
1Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Scientific Institute MultiMedica Hospital, Milan, Italy. marco.pocar@unimi.it
Abstract:
Despite a decline in the last three decades, postinfarction ventricular free wall rupture still complicates more than 3% of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarctions and remains a surgical challenge. TachoSil (Nycomed, Zurich, Switzerland) is an equine collagen patch coated with human fibrinogen and human thrombin, which has recently been used for haemostasis in cardiovascular surgery, but its potential usefulness in free wall rupture has not been reported. Initial clinical experience with an on-pump sutureless technique without cardioplegia, using wide TachoSil patching to achieve free wall rupture repair, has been described.
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