CARDIAC rupture with hemorrhage into the pericardium has long been recognized as a dramatic and rapidly fatal complication of myocardial infarction. Despite its invariably fatal termination, rupture ...
Mitral-valve replacement was performed in five patients with ruptured papillary muscle secondary to myocardial infarction. In each case severe mitral regurgitation was suggested by the sudden ...
The most serious form of the acute coronary syndrome, ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI, most often results from complete thrombotic occlusion of a major epicardial coronary artery.
Before the era of fibrinolytic reperfusion, free-wall rupture (FWR) complicated 1% to 6% of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) cases, and ventricular septal rupture (VSR), 1% to 3%.
Cardiac rupture is a fatal complication of acute myocardial infarction lacking treatment. Here, acute myocardial infarction resulted in rupture in wild-type mice and in mice lacking tissue-type ...
Prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) among patients with aortic abdominal aneurysms (AAAs) ranges between 40% and 60%. 1 A correlation between CAD severity and AAA prevalence has also been ...
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