Fatal huge left free wall ventricular rupture after acute posterior myocardial infarction

Case Rep Cardiol. 2013:2013:691971. doi: 10.1155/2013/691971. Epub 2013 Oct 8.

Abstract

A 77-year-old man, with a recent history of an acute inferior myocardial infarction, was referred to our hospital with echocardiographic and clinical signs of left ventricular free wall rupture (LVFWR). The intraoperative finding demonstrated a huge double LVFWR. The inferoposterior wall was dramatically destroyed without any possibility to repair.