Echocardiographic Assessment of Ventricular Septal Rupture and Left Ventricular Aneurysm after Inferior and Posterior Myocardial Infarction

J Cardiovasc Echogr. 2018 Jan-Mar;28(1):61-64. doi: 10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_29_17.

Abstract

We present a case of posterior ventricular septal rupture associated to left ventricular aneurysm manged, during peri-operative period, by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography. Three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography findings add adjunctive and more accurate information regarding morphological details of the ventricular septal rupture rather than two-dimensional echocardiography, allowing, meanwhile, the detection of the outcome of the surgical repair.

Keywords: Left ventricular aneurysm; myocardial infarction; transesophageal echocardiography; ventricular septal rupture.

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  • Case Reports