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Right ventricular dysplasia may pose risk of ventricular rupture after cardiac operations
S L Asplund1, P C Taylor, N B Ratliff
1Department of Anatomic Pathology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 16, 1998
Abstract:
We report the second case of rupture of the right ventricle secondary to right ventricular dysplasia after an otherwise uneventful coronary bypass graft operation. This suggests that right ventricular dysplasia may be a risk factor for ventricular rupture after cardiac operations.