Penetrating cardiac trauma has been increasing in clinical experience and is joined to important morbidity and mortality. A case of a 38-year-old female with history of postpartum depression was reported, admitted to our department for cardiac tamponade due to penetrating self-inflicted multiple stab wound of the chest complicated by rupture of anterior left ventricular wall and traumatic ventr...

In 100 patients with acute myocardial infarction the electrocardiogram was continuously registered during 72 hours. Nine patients died of ventricular rupture (eight of the left ventricular free wall and one of the ventricular septum). In eight cases death occurred while the electrocardiogram was being recorded. A specific pattern of electrocardiographic changes seems to occur during acute tampo...

cardiac rupture, particularly rupture of the left ventricular wall, has a very high mortality rate. in this occasion, even if injured patients being alive when carried to the hospital, many of them will die due to following possible reasons: severe bleeding, cardiac tamponade, wasting time for routine and usual diagnostic procedures or transferring the injured to other hospital equipped for car...

rupture of the free wall of the heart is one of the dangerous complications of myocardial infarction that usually results in death of the patient. only a few limited number of cases have been reported to have survived for a long period after myocardial infarction, free cardiac wall rupture and the following pseudo aneurysm. in this case report, a rare case of pseudo aneurysm following silent mi...

Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm is usually associated with myocardial infarction and ventricular wall rupture, although it can also be associated with other pathological conditions. Rupture causes shock, and death if not repaired urgently. We report the very rare case of a man with coronary lesions that resulted in a silent myocardial infarction with rupture of the myocardial wall and the subse...

BACKGROUND Clinical results of ischemic left ventricular free-wall rupture show high mortality rates. METHODS We reviewed studies published after 1993 on PubMed. RESULTS A sutureless technique using fibrin glue sheets or patches with/without fibrin glue might contribute to improved clinical results. However, some technique limitations remain for blowout-type ruptures, and the possibility of...

Left ventricular free wall rupture is a dramatic complication of myocardial infarction. Sub-acute rupture may be compatible with life for several days or even longer. We present a simple and effective technique of construction of a conical apical patch, Chinese-hat, which was applied successfully to the infracted left ventricular (LV) apex with surgical glue, without using cardiopulmonary bypas...