Abstract Ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is a mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction (MI). VSR and early surgical repair associated with high mortality rate suboptimal results frequent postoperative residual shunt. Rapid diagnosis proper management are critical. We present the case 73-year-old patient who came to our Emercency Room (ER) reporting oppressive chest pain profuse s...

Myocardial fiber disarray is a distinctive histopathologic finding seen in asymmetric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. We studied 14 hearts with aortic atresia and intact interventricular septum, six hearts with pulmonic atresia and intact interventricular septum, eight normal infant hearts matched for age of the study hearts, and one nonadult heart with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and asymmetric h...

T HIS PAPER was written first in 1960. At that time cases of the complete form of persistent common atrioventricular canal or endocardial cushion defect were regarded as consisting of an ostium primum defect of the atrial septum, a cleft in the anterior cusp of the mitral valve, a cleft in the septal cusp of the tricuspid valve, and an interventricular septal defect. Partial forms of the defect...

Sixteen patients with endocardial cushion defects were studied by echocardiography and ultrasonocardiotomography. Three characteristic findings, common to both complete and partial forms, were observed. They were the ostium primum defect of the interatrial septum, the left ventricular outflow narrowing and the atrioventricular valve abnormalities which are the anatomic bases of endocardial cush...