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Successful management of a postinfarction left ventricular rupture using a sutureless technique with concomitant
A Kalangos1, A Panos, P Chatelain
1University Cantonal Hospital of Geneva, Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, Switzerland.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
We present a case of left ventricular (LV) rupture that occurred on the second day after inferolateral myocardial infarction (MI). An aggressive diagnostic approach with rapid coronary angiography prior to surgical repair provides a benefit characterized postoperatively by complete recovery of myocardial contractility in the akinetic infarcted area. We believe that coronary artery disease associated with subacute ventricular rupture may, in fact, be better investigated and simultaneously treated under a protocol of early surgical repair.