Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science

Case Report

Died immediately after corrective surgery for right ventricular acute myocardial infarction and ventricular septal rupture.: Su Mi Kim, Sung Yun Jung, Min Jung Kim, Tae Hun Kwon, Kang Un Choi, Byung Jun Kim, Jang Won Sohn, Gue Ru Hong; Yeungnam Univ J Med. 2014;31(1):9-12. Published online June 30, 2014; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12701/yujm.2014.31.1.9

Abstract PDF: Postinfarction ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is a rare but fatal complication of acute myocardial infarction. In many cases, postinfarction VSR leads to hemodynamic instability and urgent surgical treatment is necessary. Here we describe a case of a patient with right ventricular (RV) dysfunction caused by acute RV infarction and with cardiogenic shock, whose condition improved after development of postinfarction VSR, but the patient died after corrective surgery.

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