Myocardial rupture is an uncommon complication of myocardial infarction, often with devastating haemodynamic consequences. Although rupture is usually fatal, when patients do survive, the majority present with a pseudoaneurysm in which the rupture is sealed by a haematoma on the epicardial surface of the heart. Cases in which all myocardial layers are dissected except the epicardium or visceral...

BACKGROUND Uterine rupture is a tear in the wall of uterus which carries grave risks to the mother as well as her baby. OBJECTIVES To estimate uterine rupture bad outcomes using propensity score and its determinants in Mizan-Tepi University teaching hospital. METHODS A case control study on 363 participants, 121 cases and 242 controls, was conducted. Data was analyzed by STATA 14. Propensit...

PURPOSE To investigate the clinical and morphological characteristics in relation to risk of bifurcation intracranial aneurysm rupture. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data from 202 consecutive patients with 219 bifurcation aneurysms (129 ruptured and 90 unruptured) managed at the authors' facility between August 2011 and July 2014 were retrospectively reviewed. Based on their clinical records and CT a...

HYPOTHESIS The incidence of silicone breast implant rupture varies with implantation time and type of implant. OBJECTIVE To measure the incidence of implant rupture by repeated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) among women with silicone breast implants. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS In 1999, 271 women who had received breast implants at least 3 years before, and who were randomly chosen ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Due to limited information about aneurysm natural history, choosing the appropriate management strategy for an unruptured aneurysm is challenging. By comparing unruptured and ruptured cases, studies have identified a variety of aneurysm morphologic and hemodynamic properties as risk factors for rupture. In this study, we investigated changes in 4 ruptured aneurysms before...

BACKGROUND This paper attempts to see if simple blood test results can predict the state of an emergency aneurysm as being non-ruptured, contained leak or free rupture. METHODS Ninety-three patients who presented to our emergency room and were operated for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) between January 1999 and March 2009 were evaluated retrospectively. Cases were classified as: chronic cont...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Unenhanced time-resolved spin-labeled magnetic resonance angiography enables hemodynamic quantification in arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). Our purpose was to identify quantitative parameters that discriminate among different AVM components and to relate hemodynamic patterns with rupture risk. METHODS Sixteen patients presenting with AVMs (7 women, 9 men; mean age 37...

BACKGROUND Wide-awake flexor tendon repair in tourniquet-free unsedated patients permits intraoperative Total Active Movement examination (iTAMe) of the freshly repaired flexor tendon. This technique has permitted the intraoperative observation of tendon repair gapping induced by active movement when the core suture is tied too loosely. The gap can be repaired intraoperatively to decrease posto...

Twenty patients with ventricular septal rupture after myocardial infarction were investigated by cross sectional echocardiography with integrated pulsed and continuous wave Doppler and colour flow mapping. Confirmatory cardiac catheterisation was performed in 12 patients. Eighteen patients had surgical repair with inspection of the defect. Six patients in whom recurrent ventricular septal ruptu...