[Survival after recurrent left ventricular free wall rupture, with an atypical occurrence after post-infarction exercise test]

Rev Esp Cardiol. 2002 Jan;55(1):74-6. doi: 10.1016/s0300-8932(02)76558-5.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Left ventricular free wall rupture is an unusual but highly lethal complication of acute myocardial infarction. We report on the extremely rare occurrence of a patient surviving two episodes of free wall rupture within a seven-month period. The first event happened in the course of an exercise testing after a seemingly uncomplicated inferior acute myocardial infarction; the second, seven months after the first, as a pseudoaneurysm in the setting of a new inferior wall infarction. Surgical repair was successful in both instances, with patient remaining asymptomatic in follow-up.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Exercise Test
  • Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / diagnosis*
  • Heart Ventricles
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Recurrence
  • Survivors