Abstract Ventricular free wall rupture is a fatal mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction. In some cases it can be represented as subacute clinic and may not cause death in a few minutes. Acute pseudo-aneurysms are extremely unstable and bound to fatal rupture. Herein we report a male pati...
Summary Although myocardial rupture occurs in only 2% to 4% of cases of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), there is a high mortality rate due to acute cardiogenic shock. We present the anatomopathological findings of three cases of myocardial rupture in autopsied hearts in the last 30 years, with a diagn...
Dois homens sexagenários apresentaram aneurisma do ventrículo esquerdo associado a comunicaçäo interventricular (CIV), na evoluçäo de infarto do miocárdio anterior extenso e ínfero-anterior. Os pacientes foram submetidos com sucesso a aneurismectomia ventricular esquerda, a revascularizaçäo do ...
Spontaneous closure of ventricular septal defect due to acute anterzor myocardial infarction was demonstrated angiographically 20 months later in a 55-year-old female patient....
Se analizan los rasgos clínicos y anatomopatológicos de una mujer de 66 años, hipertensa, diabética, dislipidémica y tabáquica, que a raíz de un primer infarto de cara diafragmática, se complica de infarto del ventrículo derecho, con severa disfunción, y ruptura del septum interventricular. Pes...