Echocardiographic capture of right ventricular wall rupture during inferior wall acute myocardial infarction

Bradley A Maron; Kumaran Kolandaivelu; David K Rhee; Alice K Bukhman; Elazer R Edelman

doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.01.357

Echocardiographic capture of right ventricular wall rupture during inferior wall acute myocardial infarction

Am J Cardiol. 2009 May 15;103(10):1478-80. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.01.357. Epub 2009 Apr 1.

Authors

Bradley A Maron¹, Kumaran Kolandaivelu, David K Rhee, Alice K Bukhman, Elazer R Edelman

Affiliation

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. bmaron@partners.org

Abstract

We present the case of a 57-year-old woman with no previous cardiovascular history in whom fatal right ventricular wall rupture was diagnosed by bedside echocardiography early in the management of an inferior wall acute myocardial infarction.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Coronary Angiography
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography*
Electrocardiography
Fatal Outcome
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Myocardial Infarction / complications*
Myocardial Infarction / diagnostic imaging*
Ventricular Septal Rupture / diagnostic imaging*
Ventricular Septal Rupture / etiology*

Grants and funding

R01 GM049039/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States