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Myocardial Infarction and Functional Outcome Assessment in Pigs
Published on: April 25, 2014
[Ventricular Septal Perforation after Inferior Myocardial Infarction]
Hisashi Sato1, Yoshihiro Nakayama, Hideya Tanaka
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osumi-Kanoya Hospital, Kanoya, Japan.
Abstract:
We report a rare case of ventricular septal perforation (VSP) after inferior myocardial infarction. Surgical repair of VSP after inferior infarction is technically difficult because of its anatomical location. An 81-year-old female presented with dyspnea on the 8th day after percutaneous coronary intervention for acute inferior myocardial infarction. Echocardiography revealed a ventricular septal perforation. Urgent operation was performed. There was a VSP around the base of the ventricular septum. The myocardial infarction extended to the adjacent muscle of the mitral valve annulus. Two bovine pericardial patches were used in the left ventricular cavity. The patches were sewn on the mitral valve annulus which was the only normal tissue in the region. The 1st patch was used to close the VSP directly, and the 2nd patch was sutured to the normal myocardium to exclude the infracted area. No residual shunt flow was observed. The postoperative course was uneventful.
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