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Surgical repair of acute postinfarction cardiac rupture
R. Hamerlijnck, Daniel Jp Dendooven, R Vossaert, Francis Colardyn, F Derom
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Abstract
Acute myocardial infarction is complicated by cardiac rupture in 4% to 24% of all infarction deaths, and approximately 10% of hospital infarction deaths. There are no reliable indices to determine which patients run an increased risk of cardiac rupture. This report describes the surgical treatment and outcome of a patient who sustained a rupture of the left ventricular free wall, nine days after extensive anterior myocardial infarction.