AMONG the complications that may plague the patient with myocardial infarction, there are few more dramatic or serious than rupture through an infarct involving the interventricular septum. To be sure ...
Before the era of fibrinolytic reperfusion, free‑wall rupture (FWR) complicated 1% to 6% of ST‑segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) cases, and ventricular septal rupture (VSR), 1% to 3%.
CARDIAC rupture with hemorrhage into the pericardium has long been recognized as a dramatic and rapidly fatal complication of myocardial infarction. Despite its invariably fatal termination, rupture ...
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Septal myectomy removes part of a thickened septum to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. It can improve severe symptoms that do not respond to ...