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. 2013:2013:691971.
doi: 10.1155/2013/691971. Epub 2013 Oct 8.

Fatal huge left free wall ventricular rupture after acute posterior myocardial infarction

Francesco Formica  1 , Silvia Mariani  2 , Orazio Ferro  3 , Giovanni Paolini  2
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Fatal huge left free wall ventricular rupture after acute posterior myocardial infarction

Francesco Formica et al. Case Rep Cardiol. 2013.

Abstract

A 77-year-old man, with a recent history of an acute inferior myocardial infarction, was referred to our hospital with echocardiographic and clinical signs of left ventricular free wall rupture (LVFWR). The intraoperative finding demonstrated a huge double LVFWR. The inferoposterior wall was dramatically destroyed without any possibility to repair.

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